MONTROSE, Pa. (AP) -- A former North Carolina doctor has been given a life sentence for murdering his best friend more than three decades ago so he could marry the friend's wife.
Sixty-seven-year-old Dr. Stephen Scher was sentenced Friday in Susquehanna County Court, one day after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder.
Prosecutors say Scher killed 30-year-old Martin Dillon so he could marry Dillon's wife.
The couple later moved to North Carolina, where Scher built a successful medical practice and raised Dillon's two children as his own.
Scher argued that Dillon confronted him about his affair and was killed accidentally as the pair struggled over a shotgun.
Scher was also convicted of first-degree murder in 1997. An appeals court ordered a new trial in 2004.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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