WAHOO, Neb. (WOWT) - The man charged in a decades-old murder case of a Nebraska teen will be sentenced in court Wednesday.

On July 31, Joseph Ambroz, 78, was granted a plea deal to plead “no contest” to a lesser charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. He will appear in court at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Ambroz was initially charged with first-degree murder when he was arrested last November in Oklahoma . The arrest comes in connection to the stabbing death of 17-year-old Mary Kay Hesse in 1969.

In the two days leading up to the July 31 court appearance, protestors objecting the plea deal gathered outside of the Saunders County courthouse .

A conviction for murder results in life in prison, but the punishment for conspiracy to commit murder in 1969 was only

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