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Posted: 8:14 AM Mar 27, 2008
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A Panama City man is headed back to prison, and he will be there for a very long time. Antonio Smith is the career criminal who killed Derrick Smith when the victim and a companion tried to steal crack cocaine from a female dealer at the Pana Villa Apartments last May.

Derrick Smith was shot to death when he tried to leave in his pickup after taking $60 worth of crack from the woman and not paying for it.

A jury Wednesday took about an hour and a half to find Antonio Smith guilty of manslaughter with a firearm.

He was sentenced to 50 years in prison. The court also found him to be a prison release re-offender and a habitual offender. That means smith will be in prison for at least 30 years.

Smith has been in and out of prison over the past 15 years. His latest release came just ten months before the fatal shooting

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