Post by Logan on Feb 3, 2016 9:26:58 GMT -6
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Scores of friends and relatives of former Albany County Attorney Richard Bohling have written letters asking a district judge to sentence him to probation and not impose prison time for his felony convictions.
A jury last fall convicted Bohling of four felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses and one misdemeanor count of official misconduct.
Prosecutors with the Wyoming Attorney General's Office charged Bohling with using county funds to purchase cameras and other items for personal use. They said he brought the items back to his county office from his home only after investigators with the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation had a county commissioner place a call to him purporting to alert him about a pending audit.
Bohling's legal team has argued that his prosecution was malicious. They charge that agents with DCI and other law enforcement agencies wanted to see him gone from office because he refused to endorse questionable investigation tactics.
Read more: billingsgazette.com/news/crime/former-wyoming-county-attorney-seeks-probation-ahead-of-sentencing/article_512a9e0f-355f-5fd0-930a-e82e9c34b223.html
A jury last fall convicted Bohling of four felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses and one misdemeanor count of official misconduct.
Prosecutors with the Wyoming Attorney General's Office charged Bohling with using county funds to purchase cameras and other items for personal use. They said he brought the items back to his county office from his home only after investigators with the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation had a county commissioner place a call to him purporting to alert him about a pending audit.
Bohling's legal team has argued that his prosecution was malicious. They charge that agents with DCI and other law enforcement agencies wanted to see him gone from office because he refused to endorse questionable investigation tactics.
Read more: billingsgazette.com/news/crime/former-wyoming-county-attorney-seeks-probation-ahead-of-sentencing/article_512a9e0f-355f-5fd0-930a-e82e9c34b223.html