After successful appeal, Livermore man sentenced to 27 years in plea deal stemming from double homicide at heroin and gun deal

DUBLIN — Four year after he successfully overturned his murder conviction on appeal, a Livermore man has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for killing a man during a chaotic double homicide in 2015, court records show.

James Henry Wear, 38, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of 22-year-old Ryan Rossknecht, and was formally transferred back to state prison on Aug. 5, records show. The case stemmed from a heroin and gun deal where 28-year-old Brandon Lowell and Rossknecht were both fatally shot.