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Man gets 35-90 years in Mich. woman's strangling
Comments 0 | Recommend 0GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A western Michigan man convicted of second-degree murder and other charges in the strangulation of a pregnant woman has been sentenced to 35 to 90 years in prison.
Edwin Lario-Munoz appeared Thursday in Kent County Circuit Court.
A jury in October found the Honduran native guilty in the fatal October 2005 attack on Silvia Sanchez-Parada at the home she and her husband shared with Lario-Munoz in Grand Rapids. Her unborn child didn't survive.
Lario-Munoz was convicted in the attack earlier, but a new trial was ordered because of hearsay allowed at his first trial.
Defense attorney Charles Clapp argued at trial that the victim's husband could have killed her.
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