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Man gets 67 years in jail for shooting

Before her father was sentenced for paralyzing a South Philadelphia man with seven bullets in April 2009, Sierra Boyd bawled into a courtroom microphone yesterday.

“My dad was always there for me. That’s not the man he is,” she said of Leonard West, sentenced up to 67 years for attempted murder of Charles McMichael. The prosecution said West shot someone he’d known since youth “and left him to die” in a residential neighborhood. West has served time in both county jail and state prison, and was prohibited from carry

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