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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2013 15:06:37 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2013 16:10:49 GMT -5
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This is a criminal case appeal in which the Defendant, Joseph Jerauld, pled guilty and was sentenced to 3-10 years in state prison for admittedly taking a women from her home, driving her by vehicle to a field, and holding her there for 4.5 hours.
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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2013 16:11:52 GMT -5
From: Times-Tribune.com Kidnapper sentenced to 3-10 yearsBY ROBERT L. BAKER (STAFF WRITER) Published: July 9, 2011 TUNKHANNOCK - A 25-year-old LaPlume man was sentenced Friday to three to 10 years in state prison for kidnapping a 19-year-old Factoryville woman in 2009. Joseph Jerauld of Route 438, LaPlume, appeared before Wyoming County Senior Judge Brendan Vanston, and his attorney asked for leniency. "The offense was totally out of character for my client," attorney John Brier said, and because it was a first offense, he asked Judge Vanston to consider probation. Mr. Brier said if Mr. Jerauld had to serve time, he asked that it be in the Wyoming County jail. As part of a plea agreement in May before President Judge Russell Shurtleff, other charges in the incident, including unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, indecent assault and harassment, were dropped. In May, Assistant District Attorney Gerald Idec told the court that between 1 and 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 5, 2009, Mr. Jerauld dragged a woman from a home on Mathewson Terrace in Factoryville. Mr. Jerauld drove the woman to a field in LaPlume, about three miles away, Mr. Idec said, holding her by the hair to prevent her from escaping. He said the woman tried to knock Mr. Jerauld's vehicle out of gear as he drove. A police complaint said the isolated field was at his family's farm. Mr. Jerauld told the woman "that no one would hear her scream, and if he buried her in the field, no one would know to look there," according to the complaint. Mr. Jerauld kept the woman confined in the field for about 4½ hours, Mr. Idec said. On Friday, Mr. Jerauld apologized to the court. "I never meant for things to get out of hand like they did," he said. Judge Vanston told Mr. Brier and Mr. Jerauld that he could not consider a lesser sentence because standard range guidelines for first-degree felony kidnapping call for a minimum of 36 months in state prison. Link to article: thetimes-tribune.com/news/kidnapper-sentenced-to-3-10-years-1.1172965 |
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