It's not the 107-year sentence former County Court Judge Robert C. Noonan handed down to convicted child molester Sean Vickers, but Vickers will still serve many decades in prison.
Earlier this year, the jury trial conviction of Vickers was overturned on appeal because the appeals court found he wasn't properly tried under the same counts in the original indictment against him.
It looked like a new trial for Vickers, but in October, Vickers agreed to a plea agreement. While that means Vickers might avoid a similar 100-year sentence, it also means his victims won't be required to testify again.
On that guilty plea, today Judge Charles Zambito sentenced Vickers to the agreed-upon 40-year prison term.
He was already serving a 20-year term on a similar conviction in Niagara County.
