20-year-old sentenced for 2007 slaying

KINGMAN, Ariz. -- A Kingman man who entered a plea agreement in a 2007 homicide was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison.

Pascual Acuna, 20, was convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Anthony Martin, 28, of Kingman.

Martin's widow objected to the deal because the sentence for the killing of her husband will be served concurrent to the 231/2 years Acuna is serving for a drive-by shooting.

Prosecutor Rod Albright said he signed off on the plea reluctantly because it secured a conviction in a case that posed serious difficulty at trial.

Albright said Acuna and co-defendant John Leland Neal, 21, shot Martin when he refused to lure another man to be robbed. Neal is serving 22 years for Martin's murder.