Judge Sara Spencer-Noggle would have preferred to send Brian Kolodziej, a former state prosecutor who falsified a police report and had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a rape victim in a case he was prosecuting, to jail.
Former state prosecutor Brian Kolodziej was sentenced to two year probation on Friday, after pleading no contest to two charges of willful neglect of duty.
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But at Kolodziej’s sentencing hearing Friday, the Isabella County Circuit Court judge said she could only give Kolodziej two years of probation, community service, and mandatory mental health treatment.
Judge Spencer-Noggle told the court that legislative sentencing guidelines meant she “cannot, as a matter of law, impose a jail sentence,” even though she believed it would be an “appropriate sanction” in this “highly disturbing case.”