Amy Clampitt was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday for the death of her boyfriend Jimmy Dugan.
Clampitt plead for mercy before Fifth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Steve Perryman levied a sentence finally saying she was responsible for Dugan’s death despite testifying otherwise at her trial earlier this month.
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