A southern Kentucky man who pleaded guilty but mentally ill in the fatal shooting of a prominent defense lawyer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Commonwealth's Attorney Eddy Montgomery told the Lexington Herald-Leader that Clinton D. Inabnit will have to serve at least 85 percent of the sentence imposed Monday in Somerset. Inabnit is in his early 40s.
Inabnit lived across the street from Mark Stanziano's law office in Somerset. Authorities said he ambushed Stanziano last summer as the attorney arrived at work, shooting him six times with a 9 mm pistol.
Inabnit had been diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic. Police said he told them he received a message through the newspaper telling him to shoot Stanziano and that unidentified people told him ringing in his ears would stop if he shot the lawyer.
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