Probation

The following cases were resolved in Clark Circuit Court Dec. 6 with Judge Jean Chenault Logue presiding. -  Anthony Ray Lee, probation violation, probation revoked, sentenced to four years. - Anthony Ray Lee, probation violation, probation revoked, failed to appear in drug court, sentenced to three years, concurrent with previous case. -  Christopher Brian Marshall, probation violation, probation revoked, sentenced to five years. -  Christopher F. Gilvin, first-degree burglary, amended to second-degree burglary, pleaded guilty, recommended 10 years; second-degree burglary (three counts)

The case against a Winchester woman accused of embezzling more than $24,000 from The Winchester Sun has been continued to Aug. 22. Michelle Holloman, 38, made her first appearance Wednesday before  Judge Brandi Oliver Brown in Clark District Court. During the pretrial conference, Brown scheduled a preliminary hearing for Holloman on Aug. 22 at 1:30 p.m. She also changed Holloman's bond from a $5,000 cash bond to a $5,000 cash or property bond. Winchester Sun managers first reported the theft to Winchester Police in June.

LANCASTER - Garrard Circuit Judge Hunter Daugherty heard it from both sides Friday before deciding the fate of Tyler Brock. Brock's attorney, Gary Crabtree, painted an idyllic picture of his client as valedictorian and star athlete at his high school who had completed 3 1⁄2 years of college with high marks and had designs on becoming a game warden or park ranger. Brock never had been arrested, Crabtree said, and has “tremendous support of family and friends” back in Laurel County, many of whom were in the courtroom.

A Nicholasville man was arrested June 28 on an E-warrant stating he was in probation violation from Florida stemming from a conviction of 149 count of possession of computer child pornography.  Ronald Keith Neal, 60, of 109 North Glencove, was arrested and charged by Nicholasville police at his home.  The citation states officers confirmed he was a fugitive from Florida by using the National Crime Information Center database.  ...

Addysen Mayes' young life came down to one critical decision in October 2010. Brooks Ecton went out to celebrate her birthday and left her 10-month-old  daughter in the care of her mother and stepfather, Cheryl Kirkwood Black and David Black, in their Lexington Avenue apartment. Sometime during the night, Addysen found some of their methadone and ingested it. She died the following day. “... Your trust in your mother was misplaced,” Clark Circuit Judge Jean Chenault Logue told Ecton before sentencing her to one year of probation Thursday afternoon.

A Georgetown man will continue serving his 12-month sentence after a judge denied his motion for shock probation Thursday. Christopher Chandler, 25, was sentenced in August to serve 12 months in jail for hindering prosecution in the death of his infant son in March 2009. The child's mother, 24-year-old Amanda Tolson of Winchester, was sentenced to five years for reckless homicide two weeks ago. Chandler's attorney Ira Kilburn made the motion Thursday afternoon, which drew quick objections from prosecutors.

Lincoln County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey Burdette sentenced Brent Whittaker, 28, of Pulaski County, to serve two 20-year sentences for the wanton murder of John and Lavanda Rowland of Berea in July of last year. As part of a plea agreement reached in July with Commonwealth's Attorney Eddy Montgomery, Whittaker's two sentences will run concurrently, but consecutive to a probated seven year sentence that he received for an assault in Pulaski County in 2006. The Rowland's were killed on July 9, 2010, when an intoxicated Whittaker crossed the center line of US 27 and crashed his pickup into the Rowland's northbound sedan.

David Hacker, 51, was scheduled for a jury trial last Wednesday morning but ended up accepting a plea deal from County Attorney Daryl Day that would allow him to be a free man, but he hadn’t made it out of the courtroom before Day and others say he violated the rules of his probation causing Day to ask for a revocation hearing. Wednesday morning Hacker was scheduled to go on trial for making a terroristic threat against a high school senior at her home in Hustonville back in May. Kelsey Merriman told Hustonville Police Chief Fred McCoy that Hacker sneaked up on her from behind outside of her Danville Street home as she played with her dog in the yard.