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An Altoona man received a new chance at life this week when a Blair County judge reduced his prison sentence for a 2015 robbery from a minimum of 15 years to three years.
But, before being resentenced Thursday, Nicholas Todd Kruge, 32, said he wanted to apologize to the robbery victims.
“I never had the opportunity to publicly apologize, at least as publicly as I can, for all the pain and hurt I caused,” Kruge told Blair County Common Pleas Court Judge Timothy M. Sullivan.
“I hope the victims,” who were not in the courtroom but were represented by Blair County Assistant District Attorney Derek Elensky, “don’t have to remember that day,” he said, but he realized that may not be the case.