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Show Sixth District Court Actions PANGUITCH' Judge K.L. Mclff presided over Sixth Judicial District Court on Thursday, Sept. 28 at the Garfield County Courthouse Court-house in Panguitch Adonica Scott, 36, formerly of Panguitch was present for an initial appearance on a single count of theft of mislaid, lost or mistaken property, a class A misdemeanor. Scott failed to appear in court Sept. 14 and was jailed for two days before be-fore being released on bail. After completing an affidavit of indigency, indi-gency, Scott was awarded the services serv-ices of Public Defender Floyd Holm She met briefly with Holm after Mclff recessed court that they might have time to confer. Following that limited visit, Holm pointed out to the court that the statute of limitations limi-tations had run it's course on this charge and the case should, be dismissed. dis-missed. Mclff concurred with Holm and dismissed the case with prejudice. Kent Blake Richee, 43, Panguitch Pan-guitch appeared in court to answer to three counts, threats to influence official action, class A misdemeanor; misde-meanor; driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, a class B misdemeanor mis-demeanor and disorderly conduct, a class C misdemeanor. Richee had obtained the services of the law firm of Scarth & Dent of St. George who were not present in court. Richee chose to plead not guilty to all three counts and the matter was continued until Oct. 26. Joe Sidwell, 32, Escalante, was before the court on five counts relating re-lating back to an alleged incident June 12. Sidwell was charged with possession of methamphetamine, a third degree felony; possession of paraphernalia, a class B misdemeanor; misde-meanor; driving under the influence, a class B misdemeanor; open container, con-tainer, a class B misdemeanor and an expired vehicle registration, a class C misdemeanor. Sidwell had no counsel and was allowed four weeks to obtain a lawyer and reappear reap-pear on Oct. 26. Shari Kautsky, 43, Rich-fieldPanguitch, Rich-fieldPanguitch, was before the . court to clarify her sentencing and fine imposed.' She was represented by Floyd Holm. Holm wanted clarification whether his client was merely to serve the appointed time in jail or was she required to obtain drug treatment before being released. re-leased. She had apparently served 23 days prior to her sentence and wanted 23 days credited for time served. Also the court had imposed a public defender fee to be paid by Kautsky of $1,000. Holm questioned ques-tioned that this was typically five times the amount collected from defendants de-fendants and he asked if his client was being penalized by the court for dropping the public defender and securing se-curing Marcus Taylor for her defense. de-fense. Holm suggested to the court that perhaps it was assumed that because his former client could afford af-ford the services of Taylor, that she should be required to pay for the original coverage of her case by the public defender. Holm informed the court that Kautsky's attorney's fees had been paid by family. Lee pointed out that the defendant defen-dant had already paid $450 toward the public defender fee and he felt that should be sufficient, however, Kautsky had paid nothing on the fine imposed by the court. Also, Lee expressed concern that Kautsky needed an inpatient treatment program pro-gram for her apparent substance abuse problem. Judge Mclff expressed ex-pressed concern as well, with releasing releas-ing Kautsky without doing everything every-thing possible to get her treatment. (See COURT on Page 5-A) COURT From Front Page Mclff asked Adult Probation and Parole Officer Reid Bean to use the next 18 days to try to get her into a program and check on the reliability of the private St. George residence Kauisky was to be released to. Bean will check on the Horizon House arrangements. The court authorized Wallace Lee to present an order for release for Kautsky if everything checks out positively. Jay Lynn Clark, 40, Panguitch, was before the court for a review hearing on the status of his case. He had been serving jail time on weekends and paying fines but was somewhat behind in payments. Attorney At-torney Wallace Lee said he. had seen improvement in Clark's attitude and Clark had come in on his own accord ac-cord to speak with Lee. Judge Mclff gave Clark until Oct. 26 to be fully current on fines. Gary L. Huntington, 28 and Kristiann Huntington, 27, of Panguitch, Pan-guitch, failed to appear in court for a scheduling conference for a trial date. Judge Mclff asked why neither the Huntingtons nor their attorney James Park were not present in court. Attorney Lee said he had not - - - - " t v f r heard from either party but stated he anticipated seven witnesses and a one-day trial. The case was tentatively tenta-tively set for trial Jan. 8-9. Howard Drake Shaffer, 43, a state inmate at Point of the Mountain, Moun-tain, appeared in court to clear up a potential case pending in Garfield County. Shaffer's attorney Floyd Holm asked the court to impose a date by which Attorney Wallace Lee must decide whether to pursue charges against Shaffer or dismiss the case. Holm said that Shaffer was cheduled to go before the parole board but they had his life on hold waiting to hear about the adjudication adjudica-tion of the case in Garfield County. Lee said he was fairly confident he will voluntarily dismiss the case however, he asked for additional time to decide. A trial date of Nov. 30 was set and Mclff asked if the case was going to settle that Lee notify the court by Oct. 26. |
