Friday, July 11 2014, 11:20 PM EDT 
 
 Teen who killed FHP trooper's K-9 gets 23-year sentence by judge ||||| Ivins Rosier, 17, is charged with one count of burglary of a dwelling with… (Palm Beach County Sheriff's…) 
 
 Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Robert Boody's retired police dog, Drake, was near death when Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Detective Philip DiMola questioned one of the suspects in the canine's shooting, then-16-year-old Ivins Rosier. 
 
 "If you shoot that dog and he dies, that's murder of a law enforcement officer," DiMola pressed Rosier on Nov. 21, 2012, in an interrogation recorded on video and watched by a Palm Beach County jury during its deliberations Friday. 
 
 As it turned out, the juvenile then confessed to DiMola, the 5-year-old German shepherd was euthanized two days later, and Rosier was charged as an adult and this week put on trial — but not for murdering a cop since Drake was retired and the law treats killing a dog differently than a human. 
 
 The end result: A guilty verdict on the felony counts of cruelty to animals with a firearm, burglary of a dwelling with a firearm and shooting into a building. 
 
 Circuit Judge Robin Rosenberg ordered Rosier, 17, to be held without bail at the Palm Beach County Jail, while defense attorneys Jack Fleischman and Rachel Preefer said they will seek a new trial and other legal challenges. 
 
 They plan to revisit their pre-trial argument that Rosier's indictment violates his right to be sentenced as a juvenile, which would mean far less prison time for the offenses. 
 
 Also, Fleischman says he'll return to the assertions he made during his closing arguments Thursday: There's insufficient evidence to find his client guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, regardless of the defendant's confession and GPS ankle monitor records showing Rosier was inside Boody's home on the night of the crimes.
– It's no small prison term: An 18-year-old boy was sentenced Friday to 23 years for a burglary in 2012 during which he shot a retired police dog, the Sun-Sentinel reports. At age 16, Ivins Rosier confessed to breaking into the home of Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Robert Boody in West Palm Beach and shooting the 5-year-old German Shepherd, the newspaper noted in May. Rosier's attorney argued that a detective "hustled" the boy during interrogation by equating the dog's death to the "murder of a law enforcement officer" (which wasn't legally true). Rosier's attorney also wanted his client sentenced as a juvenile with a maximum sentence of 6 years, CBS 12 reports. "I believe this to be sadistic to do this to a child," said Rosier's attorney, who plans to appeal. He conceded that Rosier's crimes were serious, "but when you look at the range of punishments available, that's why they call it juvenile." Ultimately, Rosier's sentence resulted from convictions on three felony counts: cruelty to animals with a firearm, burglary of a dwelling with a firearm, and shooting into a building. "A gun in a 16-year-old's hand can do equally the damage as a gun in an adult's hand," said the prosecuting attorney. "He's not a child." The trooper, Boody, cried when testifying about how he came home to find his dog crippled by gunshot wounds. (In Utah, a 16-year-old boy faces as many as 15 years in prison for taking part in a robbery with friends.)