SC felonâs sentences concurrent in 2019 case where he shot York County trooper Trooper Paul Wise (Source: Photo provided to the Rock Hill Herald) By Andrew Dys | April 15, 2021 at 8:48 AM EDT - Updated April 15 at 8:48 AM
Willie Bernard Wright, 28, was sentenced to 98 months Tuesday in federal court in Columbia. He pleaded guilty in December 2020 to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. However, because Wright already is serving a 35-year-sentence, a federal judge ruled the 98 months of federal time will run concurrent to a state sentence Wright received last December, court records show.
Wright was sentenced to 35 years in South Carolina prison last December when he pleaded guilty to attempted murder, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm during a violent crime, and failure to stop for a police officer.