Sentencing guidelines for people who try to have their family members murdered should be stiffer, Carroll prosecutors say.

Mary Gates, of Westminster, tried to hire an undercover state trooper to kill her husband and was sentenced this week to five years in prison, the low end of guidelines that recommend between four and nine years.

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