AUGUSTA (AP) – One of two men charged in last April’s fatal shooting of Franco-American singer Jean-Paul Poulain has pleaded guilty to felony murder and been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Nineteen-year-old Corey Swift entered his plea Wednesday in Kennebec County Superior Court.

Twenty-two-year-old Mathiew Loisel, who is accused of being the triggerman, is scheduled to go to trial in April.

A judge ruled this month that Loisel’s interview with a TV reporter, in which he admitted shooting Poulain, would be allowed as evidence at his trial. Swift and Loisel were charged after Poulain was fatally shot at his Augusta apartment.

Information from: Kennebec Journal, http://www.kjonline.com/

AP-ES-01-30-08 1324EST