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Man gets 30 years in sheriff slaying case

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Published: Nov. 3, 2009 at 4:37 PM

HARLAN, Ky., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A Kentucky man must serve 30 years in prison for his role in the 2002 murder of a Harlan County sheriff's candidate, a judge says.

Roger Hall, 41, a narcotics detective under former Harlan County Sheriff Steve Duff, drew the sentence Monday from Special Judge James Bowling for his role in the shooting death of Paul Browning, the Harlan Daily Enterprise reported.

Hall had been convicted of two counts of criminal facilitation to murder and four counts of second-degree trafficking a controlled substance. He was named by Dewayne Harris as the man who put the plan into action to have Browning killed. Harris is the nephew of Raymond Harris, who was found guilty of shooting Browning in the head and torching the body, the newspaper said.

Browning, a former Harlan County sheriff in the 1980s, was campaigning for the sheriff's job in 2002 when he was killed in Bell County, Ky., the newspaper said.

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