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Jesse Joel Bruce was sentenced to zero to five years for retaliating against a witness.

Bruce threatened the victim's family while out on bail for a murder charge.

His sentence will run concurrently with his 16-years-to-life murder sentence.

SALT LAKE CITY — A man convicted of stabbing his friend to death in 2019 and currently serving time for the murder charge was sentenced to zero to five years in prison for threatening the victim's family while out on bail.

In March 2019, Jesse Joel Bruce, 47, was charged in 3rd District Court with murder , a first-degree felony, in the death of his housemate Cory Haney, 40. Bruce and Haney got into a fight, and Bruce stabbed Haney to death .

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