Man gets life without parole in NY trooper's 'assassination'
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — A Florida man who deliberately ran down and killed a New York state trooper on an upstate New York highway was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Prosecutors say the trooper was issuing a ticket along Interstate 81 near Binghamton when Upton drove his pickup truck at 93 mph into the officer.
Defense attorneys had argued Upton has bipolar disorder and was in a "manic state" at the time of the crash, making him unable to understand the consequences of his actions.