A 69-year-old man who has spent 44 years behind bars for a murder in Fullerton will be soon freed after an Orange County Superior Court judge reduced his conviction to manslaughter Tuesday.

Orange County Superior Court Judge Lance Jensen denied Guy Michael Scott’s motion for a new trial based on a new law, but then reduced his murder conviction to manslaughter. Since he has been behind bars for 44 years he has more than enough credits to be freed on a 10-year sentence for that charge.

Scott was convicted in 1984 of first-degree murder and robbery and sentenced to 25 years to life in the 1981 killing of Larry Miner in the victim’s Fullerton apartment.

Scott was “out of his mind happy, just shaking,” his attorney, Scott Sanders, said.

“He went from 25 to 69 in there. You can see it, but

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