Md. Man Sentenced In Murder-For-Hire Plot

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- A Washington County Circuit judge has sentenced a Hagerstown man to 30 years in prison for trying to hire a fellow inmate to kill his estranged wife. 

James Keiser Jr. was sentenced on Tuesday. He was convicted in October of solicitation to commit murder. 

A county detention center inmate testified that Keiser offered him $15,000 in 2009 to kill his wife. 

Keiser told the judge Tuesday that he was about to sentence an innocent man. Keiser's lawyer said the conviction would be appealed. 

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