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Teen to serve 10 years for fatal stabbing

Originally published: February 17, 2012 4:00 PM
Updated: February 17, 2012 4:17 PM
By ANN GIVENS  ann.givens@newsday.com

A teenager who was convicted of stabbing a Westbury man to death in a case of mistaken identity will serve 10 years to life in prison for his crime, a Nassau judge ruled Friday.

Yan Cifuentes was just 15 in November 2010, when prosecutors say he and another man, Pedro Santos, 17, attacked Yunior Orlando Maldonado on a Hempstead street because they believed he was in a rival gang.

Cifuentes'...

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