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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A Wilkes-Barre man pleaded guilty on Monday to a count of third degree murder in a 2017 homicide outside of a Plymouth bar.</p><p>Anthony Lamar Jackson, 39, was accused of fatally shooting Nanticoke man Anthony James Wisneski, 34, outside of the former RisNicks Bar in July 2017.</p><p>Jackson appeared in court Monday before Luzerne County Judge William H. Amesbury, where he entered a guilty plea on the homicide charge, along with additional felony counts of persons not to possess a firearm and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.</p><p>Court records show that Jackson entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors on the day that was originally supposed to be the first day of his trial. That plea agreement involved an immediate sentence for Jackson.</p><p>Amesbury sentenced Jackson to a total period of between 16 and 35 years in state prison. He was given 478 days credit for time served at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility since his arrest.</p><p>Jackson will be required to pay $2,273 to the county coroner to pay for Wisnecki&#8217;s autopsy, and he will also have to pay $5,000 to the family to cover funeral costs.</p><p>According to police, Jackson shot and killed Wisneski after an argument at the bar on July 9.</p><p>Jackson was arguing with another patron when he, the other patron and Wisneski stepped outside along with bar security to settle the argument.</p><p>Jackson has admitted to shooting Wisneski multiple times at this point before fleeing the scene. He was later apprehended at a girlfriend&#8217;s residence in Leola, Lancaster County.</p><p>His defense attorney, Frank McCabe, was originally set to argue Monday morning regarding evidence found at the Lancaster County home.</p><p>State police found shell casings, a revolver and what they suspected was cocaine. McCabe had filed motions saying the search warrant lacked &#8220;sufficient probably cause,&#8221; and that nothing in the warrant linked Jackson to the home, but these objections are rendered moot by the guilty plea.</p><p>Wisneski was a father of four, and his wife Shannon had warned him not to go the bar the night he was killed.</p><p>Shannon had previously said that she hopes Jackson spends the rest of his life in prison, but he was remanded to a state correctional institute on Monday to begin a sentence that could end as early as 2034.</p><style>
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WB man pleads guilty to 2017 homicide outside Plymouth bar