An Orleans Parish judge sentenced 26-year-old Joseph Peters to 40 years in prison this week in the 2010 shooting death of a man in a wheelchair two years ago. Sedale Dorsey, 23, was gunned down in a hail of bullets in a drive-by shooting in the 2000 block of South Liberty Street.
A jury took about two hours last week to return a manslaughter verdict, rejecting the second-degree murder charge against Peters that Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s office had sought. Criminal District Court Judge Laurie White sentenced Peters to the maximum sentence for manslaughter.
Police matched DNA from one of three guns used in the shooting, a Glock 17, to Peters.
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