ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - An ex-Georgia State Patrol trooper — and the mayor of a west Georgia town — has been sentenced following his August conviction in a 2015 crash that killed two teenagers and injured two others.

A.J. Scott was found guilty of one count of second-degree vehicular homicide, two counts of serious injury by vehicle, speeding and reckless driving.

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On Wednesday, Judge Erica Tisinger sentenced Scott to 20 years, 10 of which will be served in prison and the rest on probation.

Jurors handed down the verdict a day after they began deliberating whether Scott caused a crash that killed the two teenage girls while he was a state trooper.

Scott was initially tried in 2019, but a judge declared a mistrial because the district attorney’s office

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