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Stidham gets two years, four on probation

Judge credits 261 days served on gun assault conviction

A woman who pleaded no contest to assaulting her husband with his own .22 caliber pistol will serve most of six years under supervision, with a little more than a year in a Department of Corrections facility and the rest on probation.

Cindy Stidham appeared at a sentencing hearing in state District Court in Havre Wednesday morning.

District Judge Dan Boucher, who last month denied Stidham’s request to withdraw her guilty and no contest pleas she made in February in a plea agreement, sentenced Stidham to six years with four suspended and credited her with 261 days served on the felony assault with a weapon charge and to six months with time served discharging the sentence on a misdemeanor partner or family member assault charge.

He sentenced her to five years, all suspended and to run at the same time as the other sentences, on a charge of possession of methamphetamine filed when Stidham was out of jail on bond awaiting trial on the assault charge. Stidham pleaded guilty to that charge in the plea agreement.

Boucher recommended DOC screen Stidham and assess for treatment of drug addiction and mental health issues.

 
 

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Unbelievable writes:

This is unbelievable. This woman time and again shows she is not interested in following the law! She uses drugs, commits further felonies, and still she gets time served and mostly probation! It's a JOKE. She needs to be locked up for a lot longer.

 
 
 
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