A man has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for shooting and wounding a Los Angeles police officer in 2008.

Prosecutors say 30-year-old Samuel Jackson got the maximum sentence in Superior Court Monday for shooting Officer Owen Berger.

Berger was shot in the wrist and in the chest when his partner responded to an early-morning incident in Watts in November 2008.

Police officials say the bullet-resistant vest he was wearing saved his life.

Jackson was found guilty on May 6 of premeditated attempted murder, assault on a peace officer with a semiautomatic firearm and possession of a firearm by a felon.