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Show Sixth District Court Actions PANGUITCH Judge David L. Mower presided over a Sixth Judicial District Court on May 28. Christopher W. Henrie, 27, of Panguitch was before the court on 45 separate counts. A single count of theft by deception, in the amount of $1,974.95, a third degree de-gree felony; a single count of pos session of a forged instrument, also a third degree felony; forgery, for-gery, a third degree felony and 42 additional counts of forgery. Henrie had been arrested on a no warrant fact sheet on May 18 and was incarcerated in the Garfield Gar-field County Jail until his initial appearance Thursday. He was appointed Public Defender Floyd Holm for counsel. Henrie appeared before the court with a plea bargain prepared where he pleaded guilty to a single sin-gle count of forgery, a third degree de-gree felony, after which all other counts would be dismissed. Henrie Hen-rie was ordered to remain in jail until a pre-sentence report was received by the court. He will transfer directly to the diagnostic unit at the Point of the Mountain : if space becomes available or his ; case will be revisited on July 9. A case involving Heather Lin- ford Mead, 26, formerly of Pan-; Pan-; guitch, currently of Ely, Nev. was : again before the court for an initial ini-tial appearance. Mead was charged with three counts of theft, : a 2nd degree felony. The case had been continued four times previously previ-ously and was again continued by request of Attorney Michael Parks until July 23 without explanation. Clayton Burningham, 28, Panguitch Pan-guitch was before the court for a preliminary hearing. Burningham had secured Robert Breeze of Salt Lake City for counsel. Several Sev-eral witnesses were present to testify. The hearing proceeded with the first witness Garfield County Sheriffs Deputy James D. Perkins called to testify but proceedings pro-ceedings were halted abruptly when Attorney Breeze learned of a tape recording made of the interview in-terview of his client by Officer Perkins. A copy of the tape had not been provided to the defense dur ing discovery. Breeze requested the hearing cease and proceed at a later date after he was able to study the tape. The court ordered Attorney Wallace Lee to provide a copy of the tape to Breeze and the case was continued until June 25. Luke Matthew McEwen Kirby, 21, of Panguitch was before the court to review the status of his case. Mower had previously sentenced sen-tenced Kirby on a single count of supplying alcohol to a minor, a class A misdemeanor, to a term of one year in the Garfield County Jail, he requested mental health counseling be conducted while incarcerated. McEwen was also fined a total of $4,625 and committed com-mitted to the custody of the sheriff. sher-iff. After review Kirby was released re-leased on his own recognizance1 with the proviso that he meet with Adult Probation and Parole on June 3 to sign an agreement for a 24-month supervised probation. He will also begin to pay fines up to $400. A case involving Aaron J. Redding, 19, Panguitch was slated to go before the court for sentencing on various charges relating back to an incident Dec. 27, 1997. , A pre-sentence report for Redding had just been received re-ceived by the court last month so a continuance for additional time was requested by Attorney Floyd Holm and granted by the court. A second continuance was requested re-quested and again granted. Fred Senn, Cannon ville, was set for sentencing on a single charge of supplying alcohol to a minor dating back to Oct. 18, 1997. A pre-sentence report was received by the court and Attorney Attor-ney Lee recommended Senn serve 10 days in the county jail. JJenn was represented by Public Defender Floyd Holm. Judge Mower sentenced Senn to one year in the county jail and a fine of $4,625. He suspended all jail time and Senn will serve 24 months probation and pay a fine of $500 if he appears June 3 to meet with Adult Probation and Parole. |