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Associated Press
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Two Florida teens have been sentenced to 40 years in prison each for the fatal robbery of a taxi driver.
Court records show that the 15-year-old boy and 17-year-old boy were sentenced Thursday after pleading no contest to first-degree murder and robbery with a firearm.
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