Friend
That's the sentence handed down Tuesday by U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver.
Copenhaver could have given defendant Valerie Friend a life term for her role in the shooting and beating death of Carla Collins.
But Friend pleaded guilty instead of going to trial. She then testified against co-defendant George Lecco before a jury convicted him in April as the murder's mastermind.
Lecco had been selling cocaine out of his Mingo County pizza parlor. Friend said she and a second woman, Patricia Burton, were acting on his orders when they killed the 33-year-old Collins.
Burton also pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison last week.
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