17-Year Sentence Sticks for Man Who Killed Woman on Porch

17-Year Sentence Sticks for Man Who Killed Woman on Porch
Ted Wafer, of Dearborn Heights, Mich., testifies in his own defense during his second degree murder trial in Detroit on Aug. 4, 2014. Clarence Tabb Jr./Detroit News via AP
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DETROIT—A Detroit-area man who said he feared for his life when he fatally shot a young woman on his porch in 2013 was given the same 17-year prison sentence Wednesday at a new hearing ordered by the Michigan Supreme Court.

Ted Wafer was convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of Renisha McBride in Dearborn Heights.