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ALAMOGORDO, N.M. — A former Otero County sheriff's deputy who fatally shot a man who had killed his partner will spend a year in prison and two years on probation after sentencing Friday. Bill Anders reached a deal with prosecutors last August in which he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of Earl Flippen. Anders had faced between one and seven years in prison. Anders' attorney had asked for a lesser sentence, but Judge James Waylon Counts said state law required that Anders spend at least one year in prison for the crime. Defense witnesses testified during Anders'...

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