A California man will spend nearly two decades behind bars for an inexplicable shooting during a house party that killed a father of two.
Late last year, Christopher Valdez, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter in a plea deal with an agreed-upon punishment for the death of 22-year-old Andrew Valdez.
On Monday, he was sentenced to 26 years in prison by Fresno County Superior Court Judge Houry Sanderson, who did not deviate from the terms of the plea deal. The court, however, assessed a credit of nearly seven years already spent in pretrial detention — meaning Christopher Valdez’s sentence going forward will be diminished by nearly one-third…