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<p>GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) &#8212; A lawyer for a 19-year-old Pennsylvania man convicted of shooting a friend and then posing for a selfie with the dying teen has appealed his sentence.</p><p>The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that the attorney for Maxwell Morton, of Jeannette, filed an appeal Tuesday asking a judge to impose a lesser sentence than the 15 to 30 years in prison issued last week.</p><p>Defense attorney Pat Thomassey says the &#8220;court did not give appropriate weight to the defendant&#8217;s overwhelming remorse and regret regarding the accidental shooting of his friend.&#8221;</p><p>Morton was convicted in February of third-degree murder for the 2015 shooting of 16-year-old Ryan Mangan.</p><p>He said he and Mangan were playing with a handgun and he thought it wasn&#8217;t loaded when he pointed it at Mangan and pulled the trigger.</p><style>
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Pa. man who shot teen, took selfie with him as he died, appeals sentence