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Associated Press - January 7, 2010 5:05 PM ET
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Nevada judge sentenced a 34-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala to life in prison without parole for killing a hot dog stand vendor with a pipe bomb hidden in a coffee cup outside a Las Vegas Strip casino in 2007.
Omar Rueda-Denvers protested again that he was innocent before Clark County District Court Judge Michael Villani imposed a sentence determined by a jury in September.
The judge added a 16 to 40 year sentence for attempted murder with use of a deadly weapon.
Rueda-Denvers' lawyer says he'll appeal.
Sentencing was postponed for 29-year-old co-defendant Porfirio Duarte-Herrera. He's an illegal Nicaraguan immigrant convicted of building the bomb that killed 24-year-old Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio in a parking lot outside the Luxor resort.
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