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MARYSVILLE — Joseph R. Magana, 31, of Mt. Victory, pleaded guilty last week in Union County Common Pleas Court to one count of murder with a gun specification in connection with the shooting death of Arthur Burchett in February 2015.
In exchange for the plea, prosecutors dismissed aggravated murder charges which could have carried the death penalty, as well as a repeat violent offender specification for a 2004 aggravated robbery conviction, the Marysville Journal-Tribune reports.
The defendant was sentenced to life with a possibility of parole in 15 years.
Magana and his girlfriend, Amber N. Parish, reportedly went to the 67-year-old victim’s Richwood home as part of a planned robbery to take marijuana, pills and guns.