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Show Sixth District Court Actions PANGUITCH Judge K.L. Mclff presided over a short docket . for Sixth Judicial District Court Thursday, Aug. 9. Cindy Knighton, 24, Salt Lake City, who was sentenced June 7 for a third degree felony charge of possession pos-session with intent to distribute and who was incarcerated in the Garfield County Correctional Facility, was before the court for a status review. Knighton was awaiting bed space in ' the Northern Utah Women's Correctional Cor-rectional Facility for a substance abuse treatment program. It was ; i determined that a slot would not be open till a later date. Knighton was ! granted temporary release and placed . under custody of her parents to be under 24-hour house arrest. Robert Shaw McLeroy, 30, who was involved in a wildlife case in ; Garfield County and had served his sentence was before the court on a ; motion to reduce the severity of his . sentence. Shaw was represented by Public Defender Keith Barnes and was granted a reduction in the charge from a third degree felony count of wanton destruction of protected pro-tected wildlife to a class A misdemeanor. misde-meanor. The case of Jed B. LeFevre, 19, Panguitch, who is currently serving a 120-day term with work release in the Garfield County Correctional Facility was before the court for review. re-view. Adult Probation and Parole Officer Reid Bean had made request for early release due to good behavior behav-ior in behalf of LeFevre. LeFevre was incarcerated for obstruction of justice, a class A misdemeanor. Judge Mclff credited LeFevre with time served of 53 days and placed him on home confinement until Sept. 3 with continued provision for work release. The case of Mark D. Talbot, 39, Panguitch was before the court initially ini-tially for a preliminary hearing. Talbot had been incarcerated in the Garfield County Correctional Facility Facil-ity but was able to make the bail of $20,000 the previous weekend. He had secured Attorney Marcus Taylor of Richfield for counsel and was before be-fore the court on three separate charges. A felony count of possession posses-sion with intent to distribute, a class A misdemeanor of use of possession pos-session of drug paraphernalia and a second class A misdemeanor possession pos-session with intent to manufacture or produce. Additional time was requested re-quested by Taylor to make discovery discov-ery in this case. The matter was set on the docket for preliminary hearing hear-ing on Sept. 27. Clayton Burningham, 31, Panguitch Pan-guitch was before the court on a single third degree felony charge of criminal non-support. Burningham was represented by Public Defender Keith Barnes and Charlotte Meacham made an appearance representing repre-senting the state of Utah. Burningham Burning-ham waived his preliminary hearing, hear-ing, was arraigned and plead not guilty to the charge, requesting a jury trial. A status hearing was set for Sept. 22. Terry Arnold Messer, 28, and David Hoschouer, 33, both inmates at the GCCF were before the court on similar charges. Messer, represented repre-sented by Attorney Lawrence Hunt of Richfield was charged with first degree felony count of possession of a controlled substance in a correctional cor-rectional facility. Hoschouer, represented rep-resented by Bryan J. Jackson, Cedar (See COURT on page 4-A) COURT From Page 4-A City was charged witn a second de- ! gree felony count also for posses- ; sion in a correctional facility. A ; preliminary hearing was held in which Judge Mclff found probable cause to bind both defendants over. Both waived their rights and entered ' pleas of not guilty. Messer had a jail release date set for Sept. 4 from ! his current sentence, so Judge Mclff ; set bail at $50,000. Mclff reserved ; the right to revisit the bail issue if ; (See COURT on page 6-A) COURT From Front Page needed. Two other inmates, Travis Chamberlain, 25, and Jeff Hill, 36, were before the court on one first degree felony count each for possession posses-sion of a controlled substance in a correctional facility. Both were represented rep-resented by Public Defender Keith C. Barnes. In plea agreements both defendants plead guilty to reduced count of a third degree felony and waived their time for sentencing. Each was sentenced to from zero-to-: five years in state prison with no fine. The sentence was to run con-' current with their present sentences. |
