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Show Leavitt Probation Revoked By Court PANGUITCH Judge David Mower revoked probation for 18-year-old Shon Leavitt, Escalante, and sentenced him to 180 days in the county jail to include inpatient and outpatient alcohol treatment along with the earlier terms of his probation. Leavitt was back in Sixth District Dis-trict in Panguitch court on March 18 charged with breaking the terms of his probation imposed when he was sentenced last fall. Leavitt had been convicted in 1992 of a second degree felony, fined $18,500 and sentenced by Judge Mower to 1-15 years in priso-pended the sentence and instead in-stead gave him 90 days in the county jail with orders to attend an inpatient alcohol treatment facility. After serving 90 days in the county jail, he was released to attend at-tend the alcohol treatment program. Leavitt was admitted to Serenity House in Ogden on Feb 12 but left voluntarily less than a week later without fulfilling the terms of his agreement A warrant for his arrest was subsequently issued. With Leavitt back in court on March 18, Garfield County Attorney Attor-ney Wallace Lee told the court that Leavitt had abused his privilege of probation and had virtually "thumbed his nose at the courts" by his actions. Leavitt's probation officer off-icer Reid Bean accused Leavitt of being a "manipulator of the system" and said that officials at Serenity House stated Leavitt had a "negative "nega-tive attitude." Leavitt's attorney Kent Winward told the court his client "didn't understand un-derstand the gravity" of violating probation terms. He told the judge he "didn't fit in" with other patients at the facility and was denied the opportunity to get a job as promised. |