The leader of an extortion robbery plot at a Lancaster barber shop in 2011 will not get a new sentence, the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled.

Aaron W. Robinson, 45, is serving 34 to 68 years in prison for targeting the barber shop owner over a series of days and demanding money.

Robinson and a co-defendant were convicted at trial. Robinson laughed in court while being sentenced to decades in prison.

In a request for relief, Robinson argued he did not receive proper notice before his second sentencing hearing that prosecutors would seek a second-strike mandatory sentence.

The state court recently ruled that Robinson received notice before his first sentencing hearing, and that is sufficient.

Robinson and Chapel Thompson abducted the victim at gunpoint and forced him to withdraw funds from a bank account, claiming the victim owed $5,000.

Thompson was sentenced to 23 to 46 years in prison.

Robinson faced a second-strike mandatory because he was convicted of aggravated assault for a shooting in Lancaster County in 1993.

Lancaster city police investigated and filed charges in the extortion case.

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