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A former Riverside County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to serve a year in prison for killing his girlfriend’s former partner while on duty .

A jury convicted Oscar Rodriguez, 43, of voluntary manslaughter in June.

Initially, law enforcement authorities said Rodriguez was justified when he shot 39-year-old Luis Morin. Rodriguez said he was serving a warrant for an outstanding felony when he got into a struggle with Morin and shot him in the chest.

But a civil lawsuit revealed that at the time of the shooting Rodriguez was dating Diana Perez, who had two children with Morin. Prosecutors say Rodriguez met Perez while working as a deputy; he responded to multiple 911 calls she mad

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