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After a four-day trial the jury convicted Patrick Ragland of Manslaughter 2^nd Degree, Tampering with physical evidence and guilty of PFO 1^st Degree . The jury then recommended that Ragland serve 20 years for manslaughter 2^nd and 20 years on Tampering. However, they couldn’t decide if the penalties should be served consecutive or concurrent.The judge will decide how his time should be served on sentencing on April 24^th.

Thanks to our hardworking prosecutors, Lou Anna Red Corn and David Startsman and Victim’s Advocate Briana Persley. We are very fortunate to have such outstanding people working for justice in our community.

The second murder trial, Commonwealth v Terrance Sims, begins its second day of trial today. We will keep you up to date.

Next, Repeat Felony Offenders continue create huge problems in our community. Repeat felony offenders are criminals who have at least one prior felony conviction. Most have several felony and misdemeanor convictions.

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TUESDAY: Check out our new feature “SUNRISE NEWS & COMMENT”

It is a 2 minute wrap of crime news from our office, reported by members of our office staff.

Yesterday and today Blerina Gojani, from Kosova, and a Victims Advocate in our office, is our SUNRISE NEWS ANCHOR. She reports the results of trials and other interesting criminal justice stories.

Wednesday, Abigail Watkins, our sooper-star techno-type, and happiest person I know, will take her turn in the SUNRISE NEWS ANCHOR chair.

Tune in for 2 minutes and you’ll find out what going on in the world of Crime-Fighting.

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Keeping Up with the Progress of CentrePointe!

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Happy Birthday To Our Own Allison Beck

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PFO Report: March 3rd – March 7th

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MONDAY RAY the D.A.’s NEWS & COMMENT

Each morning we will try to provide news and comment on criminal justice issues and court activities which affect all of us.

TWO MURDER TRIALS GOING ON:

1. COM v RAGLAND - murder trial being prosecuted by Lou Anna Red Corn and David Startsman which began last week should finish today. We will keep you up to date when the jury returns a verdict.

2. COM v SIMS – this murder trial begins today. Dan Laren and Aspen Carlisle are the prosecutors. Mary Houlihan is the Victims Advocate. Because these cases are in progress we do not discuss any of the facts. We will provide more information to you when it is appropriate to do so.

3. We were sorry to report the death of Joe Barbieri. He was the long-time head of Fayette County’s Legal Aide which defended indigent defendants in criminal cases. He was an outstanding lawyer, and real gentleman and will be missed.

Thank you for tuning in today and we hope to see you tomorrow morning at SUN RISE NEWS & COMMENT.

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Spoiled Cheerleader, Van In Ocean & Molly

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Sentencings The Week of February 28th

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Face Slashing at Fayette Mall

The victim in the case is an 18 year old aspiring model who was in love with a man who she knew had a child with another woman but what she didn’t know was that he was in a relationship with both girls. When the Defendant became aware that her boyfriend was dating another person a heated exchange began on social media. The victim became fearful, changed her number and tried to get herself out of this love triangle! A few months later when the victim arrived at Fayette Mall for work the Defendant, who later in the investigation was revealed had waited 2 hours outside her place of employment, approached and assaulted her with a razor blade slashing an X in her face.

Bewley was charged with one count of Assault 1^st Degree and ended up pleading guilty on January 10^th, 2014 to the amended charge of Assault 1^st under extreme emotional disturbance, with a recommended sentence of 5 years. She was sentenced on February 27^th, 2014 still trying to blame the victim. Judge Ishmael saw through the defendant’s inconsistencies and sent her to serve the 5years in a state facility.

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Two Months Journey At The Office By Larkin Walker

I have learned a lot so far in my time at the Commonwealths Attorney Office. Every week I do a “Crime In Pop-Culture” segment where I talk about topics related to crime that are happening in todays pop culture. I also get to do other public relations tasks like manage social media account and handle media outlets.

I really enjoy going to court with the prosecutors and sitting in on grand jury selection, video arraignments and so much more.

The most heartbreaking part of my internship is working with victims of domestic abuse. In the state of Kentucky, domestic abuse is considered a “non-violent” crime. This means that the defendants only have to serve 20% of the time they are sentenced to. While this may seem like a lot of time, if a defendant is sentenced to 1 year of repeatedly beating his wife, they only have to serve just a few months before they are released back into the world. What is most alarming about this and what I have the most trouble dealing with is the thought that the victims abuser has served just a little time in jail and will be released with the potential threat, and in most cases very serious threat, of harming the victim again.

The legal system does protect us in so many wonderful ways but I have learned in my time here that there are a number of laws and litigation that allows defendants the opportunity to “get off easy” for their crimes.

I really enjoy the work that I do here and love the people that I work with. In my short time here, my desire to go to law school after graduation from under graduate. I know that this and the work that the prosecutors do here is what I want to do with the rest of my life and help victims of the terrible crimes.

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