(KNZA)--More than 20 years in prison.

That’s the sentence handed to a Mayetta man convicted in the November 2015 stabbing death of a Mayetta woman.

51-year-old Wilson Noriega was sentenced last week in Jackson County District Court to 20 years and 7 months in prison on a charge of voluntary manslaughter.

He pleaded no contest in April to the reduced charge.  In exchange for the plea, two drug-related charges were dismissed.

Noriega had originally been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of 49-year-old Leann Sanchez early November 21st, 2015 at a residence on the Prairie Band Potawatomi Reservation where the two lived.