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Parolee gets 41-years-to-life sentence in shooting

A parolee Tuesday was returned to prison for a term of 41-years-to-life in connection with an attempted murder in Chico.

William Robert Dye, 40, was convicted by a Butte County Superior Court jury of shooting Donald Powell Jr., 45, in the face during a purported drug buy at the victim's East Ninth Street residence late Sept. 1, 2007.

Powell survived, though testified he is partially blind and has no memory of the shooting…

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