SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- A jury on Tuesday convicted a lawyer of attempted murder in a 2004 shooting that left a rival attorney in a nursing home, unable to speak.
Prosecutors said they would seek a stiffer sentence for William R. Joice, 51, beyond the standard-range term of 20 to 25 years because of aggravating factors.
Joice testified during the trial that although he shot Kevin Jung in the head outside Jung's Bellevue law office, he didn't intend to kill him.
Joice said he was just trying to injure Jung to buy time in a lawsuit which pitted the two lawyers against each other. Jung, a 45-year-old father of two, and Joice represented opposite sides in a contract dispute.
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