Homeless man sentenced in death of lover  Travel deals  A
homeless man who suffocated his lover during sex in a Riverhead
motel was sentenced Monday to 6 years in prison.  It was a
sentence that left both the defendant, Douglas Rico, 46, and the
Suffolk district attorney's office dissatisfied.  Rico pleaded
guilty to first-degree manslaughter in October in the death of
Henrietta Sholl, 53. In return, Suffolk County Court Judge John
Toomey Jr. promised a sentence of no more than 7 years and said
he was inclined to grant Rico a week of freedom to spend with
his children before going upstate to prison.  However, Toomey
later decided Rico should not spend a week out of custody. Rico
then asked to withdraw his guilty plea, but Toomey refused.
"The whole thing is a tragic story," said defense attorney
Daniel Russo of Westhampton Beach. "They were very much in
love." Until his guilty plea, Rico had said that Sholl's death
was accidental.  Both Rico and Sholl had left families while in
the throes of drug and alcohol