Assistant U.S. Attorney Dall Kammer and his team will have until March 2 to present their own list of potential witnesses to testify at sentencing, at a date that’s not yet been set.
The U.S. Probation Office has already filed a draft sentencing report. Sentencing guidelines depend on several factors, including the amount of money involved. It’s not unusual for people to write letters to judges vouching for defendants’ character before they are sentenced, but hearing testimony from both sides before sentencing is less common.
Mayfield “will probably want to bring forth people to say he was of good character and maybe this was just a simple mistake,” said WWL-TV Legal Analyst Keva Landrum, a former state criminal court judge and district attorney. “And then the prosecution may want to bring people who they thought would have been their witnesses in the trial to say otherwise.”
Julie Wheeler was given another year in jail for conspiring to obstruct justice
Prosecutors said she admitted to conspiring with her husband, Rodney Wheeler, to keep her out of prison for healthcare fraud
In May Rodney told cops his wife fell off Grandview Overlook in New River Gorge
Authorities said the 911 call prompted a massive search and rescue operation with hundreds of volunteers, law enforcement, and search and rescue personnel
After a two-day search, Julie Wheeler was found cowering in her closet at home
She and her husband were arrested; Rodney will face sentencing in April
Julie Wheeler pleaded guilty to the healthcare fraud charge on February 11
Jonathan Manigault
A South Carolina man charged in connection with a Pike County child pornography case was sentenced to 40 years in prison this week.
According to a statement from the U.S. Attorneyâs Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky, on Jan. 25, U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell sentenced Jonathan Manigault, 36, of
Myrtle Beach, to 480 months in prison on charges of production of child pornography and knowingly receiving child pornography.
Manigaultâs co-defendant, Christina Brook Mitchell, 31, of King Camp Branch, Phelps, was sentenced in February to serve 35 years in the case.
According to the statement from the U.S. Attorneyâs Office, Manigault, who pleaded guilty in the case, admitted that he directed Mitchell to take photographs of a three-year-old victim engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Manigault, the statement said, provided Mitchell with specific, detailed instructions on what types of explicit photographs to produce and provide to him.
A Presque Isle man pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, said U.S.