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Inmate gets 2 more years in stabbing

A former Pelican Bay State Prison inmate who stabbed his cellmate in the neck with a pencil will be incarcerated for an additional two years, a Del Norte County jury has decided.

Robert Soto, who was originally convicted of selling heroin, stabbed his cellmate in 1996.

He was found not guilty due to insanity and was sent to Patton State Hospital, a mental institution in San Bernardino County…

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