FAYETTEVILLE — The sentencing for former Franklin County Sheriff Anthony Boen was reset after a federal choose denied his request to both vacate his convictions or granted him a brand new trial.
U.S. District Decide Timothy L. Brooks on Friday scheduled Boen’s sentencing for 10:30 a.m. Feb. 9 in Fayetteville, in line with court docket information. The sentencing listening to was initially set for Jan. 12 earlier than Brooks canceled it in October.
Boen, 51, is as much as 20 years in federal jail and extra fines after a jury convicted him Aug. 9 of two federal counts of deprivation of rights underneath shade of regulation. The fees originated from two use-of-force incidents towards jail detainees in 2018 leading to accidents. Boen had been sheriff since 2011.
Boen was indicted on three of those prices Nov. 20, 2019, however the jury acquitted him of 1.
Brooks presided over a listening to in Fayetteville Nov. 16 on Boen’s movement for judgment of acquittal or new trial. The movement, filed Aug. 23, argued the federal authorities did not current enough proof throughout Boen’s trial to ascertain he dedicated any of the acts described in his indictment past an affordable doubt.
Cory Thomas, supervisor deputy for the U.S. Marshals Service in Fayetteville, has mentioned Boen is awaiting sentencing on the Okmulgee County jail in Okmulgee, Okla.
The Franklin County Quorum Court docket appointed Rickey Denton to hold out the rest of Boen’s four-year time period as sheriff, in line with Franklin County county choose’s workplace. It declared a emptiness within the place Sept. 2. Boen’s time period expires Dec. 31, 2022.
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