A federal prosecutor is recommending less than the maximum prison sentences for three men who testified against the California biomedical researcher convicted of masterminding a murder-for-hire plot that led to the death of a business rival in Vermont.

Court documents, which were filed this week ahead of hearings set for next week in federal court in Burlington, lay out the arguments a prosecutor plans to make in support of the amount of time behind bars he will be seeking for the men, who already reached plea deals in the case.

The plea deals included separate proposed maximum sentences each of the men could face for their role in the deadly scheme that resulted in the fatal shooting in January 2018 of 49-year-old Gregory Davis of Danville.

The prosecutor cited the cooperation the thre

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