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Anais Soto cries Friday, July 2, as she pleads guilty to burglary in the first degree, shortly before sentencing in Otsego County Court. Soto was a defendant in the 2019 murder of Kenneth Robinson. (Kevin Limiti/Allotsego.com).

Anais Soto sentenced
to eight years
in Robinson murder case

By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

COOPERSTOWN – Anais Soto of Oneonta, one of the accomplices in the 2019 murder of Kenneth Robinson during a botched robbery, was sentenced Friday, July 2, to eight years in prison and four years probation after pleading guilty to burglary in the first degree Friday, July 2, in Otsego County Court.

Soto, 17, was visibly shaken during the proceedings, crying at points. Judge John Lambert had to remind her several times to speak up.

District Attorney John Muehl read a statement from Kenneth Robinson's mother, Sharon Sawyer, in which she called for the highest possible sentence allowed by law.

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