Judge admits he made mistake in sentencing Misty Roberts, who faced up to 17 years in prison after conviction
The former Louisiana mayor Misty Roberts has completed the 90-day jail sentence she received for raping a 16-year-old boy while still in elected office and been released from custody, according to state corrections records.
The 44-year-old finished her jail term on what was the Labor Day holiday in the US, one week after the judge who presided over her case rejected a request from prosecutors to force her to serve a harsher sentence.
Judge Kent Savoie nonetheless acknowledged in court he was mistaken to have based Roberts’ sentence off of a list of more than 30 cases that were resolved through plea deals, unlike her prosecution, which culminated in a jury trial and guilty verdict, the Louisiana news station KPLC reported.
“I asked someone to get me a list of cases similar,” Savoie was quoted as saying on 31 August. “I made an assumption, and that assumption was wrong.
Didn’t even have to open the article - it’s in the body text of the post.
Now that the original sentence has been fully served, I don’t think there’s any avenues for further appeals by either the prosecution nor defence. I could be wrong though as this may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
Yeah, I was about to say the prosecution did do that. But the pro rape judge seems to think that it was fine to have a convicted rapist serve less then 100 days in jail.