(AP) -- A 41-year-old central New York man shot and wounded by a state trooper during an armed confrontation in June has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison.
James Newbill had pleaded guilty to four counts of menacing a police officer for arming himself with a rifle and walking toward the trooper and three Oneida County sheriff's deputies outside his town of Lee home on June 21.
Newbill told prosecutors he had hoped police would kill him. After he fired a shot into the air and refused orders to drop the weapon, the trooper shot him in both hands.
The Utica Observer-Dispatch reports that Newbill said during his sentencing Tuesday that he had no intention of harming the officers.
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