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Trooper shooting defendant pleads guilty by reason of mental illness
A 67-year-old man pleaded “guilty but mentally ill” on July 26 at White Pine County District Court in Ely, pertaining to an ambush-style shooting early last year that left a Nevada Highway Patrol sergeant dead. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported in exchange for the plea, White Pine County prosecutors pulled capital punishment off the table. […]