A Cottonwood, Calif., man who was convicted of shooting his wife after she failed to renew his driver’s license has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Gary Alan Hemsted, who admitted to using the .22-caliber rifle to shoot his wife on Aug. 2, 2005, pleaded no contest to attempted voluntary manslaughter, the Redding (Calif.) Record-Searchlight reported Thursday.

Shasta County, Calif., Deputy District Attorney Curtis Woods said Hemsted will be required to serve 85 percent of his sentence before he is eligible for parole, but defense attorney Richard Maxion said 796 days of jail custody and good behavior credits are being taken off the sentence, reducing it to a little more than six years.

Prosecutors said Hemsted, a truck driver, shot his wife after blaming her for a citation he received for driving with an expired license. Lisa Hemsted, who was struck in the right thigh by the bullet, did not attend the sentencing.

Source: UPI

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