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Show Drug dealer sentenced FARMINGTON A convicted drug dealer was sentenced to 60 days in the Davis County Jail on a reduced charge involving distribution of a controlled substance. Charged with a third degree felony. Rick Nelson, 26, of 189 S. Main Street, Layton, appeared for sentencing Tuesday before 2nd District Court Judge Douglas L. Cornaby. Attorney Scott Holt asked the court for leniency. "He has not had any trouble for eight years," Holt told the court and added this was Nelson's first adult offense. He asked Cornaby to reduce the felony charge to a Class A misdemeanor. "I'm trying to get my high school diploma," Nelson told Cornaby. "I dropped out of school when I was young. That was really stupid." Pointing to his wife in the audience, Nelson told the judge she is due to deliver a baby "any day." He asked the judge not to incarcerate him for that reason. Comaby reviewed details of the crime which involved in-volved the sate of drugs. "I only got them drugs one time," Nelson said. "They stopped in several times after that and I told them I couldn't help them," he said. The judge admonished Nelson for his remarks. ' 'You don't do this just once to accommodate a friend. You don't do it ever," the judge said. Although he agreed to reduce the charge to a Class A misdemeanor, Cornaby refused to suspend the entire one year jail sentence he imposed. He ordered Nelson to appear for incarceration in the county jail at 7 p.m. Tuesday to begin serving a sentence of 60 days. Nelson was also ordered to pay a fine of $500, plus $150 as a drug assessment fee. Cornaby agreed to release Nelson from jail to attend school four days each week. "Could you let me out to see my baby bom?" Nelson asked. The judge agreed that could be ar. anged At the pronouncement of the sentence. Nelson's wife broke down. She was led from the courtroom sobbing. 1 |