CASPER, Wyo. — The following are selected arraignments, judgments and sentences rendered recently in the Seventh Judicial District of Wyoming in Natrona County.
This is not a comprehensive log and may be updated with filings provided by the Clerk of District Court. Filings from the clerk do not include sentence recommendations or other details included from hearings attended by Oil City News.
The court is not bound at sentencing by negotiated dispositions and plea agreements between the state and defense counsel. “Binding” plea agreements mean the defendant may withdraw a guilty plea if the court opts for stronger sentence than recommended. “Non-binding” plea agreements mean the defendant cannot withdraw their plea.
Many agreements come with a cold plea provision, meaning if the defendant violates any bond condition, the state is free to argue for any sentence applicable under statute.
Jury Trial
- Sierra Maelynn White
- Found guilty of vehicular homicide
- Found not guilty of aggravated vehicular homicide
Sentences:
- Thomas William Branstetter – Burglary x2
- 12–18 months prison
- Chad Darryl Erickson – Possession of meth: felony weight
- 42–48 months suspended
- Three years supervised probation
- Willie Frank Young – Burglary
- Two and a half to five years prison
- Shawn Michael Patrick – Theft
- Four to eight years suspended
- Adult Community Correctional facility recommended
- Alexandrea Dannels – Child endangerment with methamphetamine: child present where methamphetamine stored/possessed/ingested
- Three to five years suspended
- Two years supervised probation
- Robert Michael Harvey – Aggravated eluding
- Two and a half to five years prison
- Chad Allen Harpster – Strangulation of a household member
- Four to six years suspended
- Three years supervised probation
- Torrey Reed Miller-Topping – Conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance, possession of fentanyl: felony weight
- Four to six years prison
Arraignment – Not Guilty Plea:
- Sable Dawn Phifer – Possession of a controlled substance: third or subsequent conviction
- Shane Michael Hollenback – Property destruction, criminal trespass
- Scott Wayne Rayburn – Exploitation of vulnerable adult
- Gerldine Esther Englund – Probation revocation
Guilty Plea: Arraignments and Changes-of-Plea
- Anthon Ray Ortega – Escape
- Plea Agreement: 18–24 months prison
- Michael E Merritt – Unlawful entry to commit battery, domestic battery: misdemeanor
- Pleaded guilty pursuant to Alford
- Four to six years suspended
- Three years supervised probation
- Julius Dante Brown – Possession of methamphetamine: felony weight
- Plea Agreement: Five-year cap
- Alvin Duran Kohm – Domestic battery: third in 10 years
- Pleaded no contest
- Plea Agreement: Two- to four-year cap
- Ramona Patino — Child endangerment with methamphetamine: child present where methamphetamine stored/possessed/ingested, possession of marijuana
- Plea Agreement: Two to four years suspended
- Three years supervised probation, Adult Community Correctional facility recommended
- Karley Anna Wayts – Conspiracy to deliver fentanyl
- Danny Edward Bouissey — DUI: Fourth in 10 Years
- Plea Agreement: No penitentiary time
- Cody James Noonan — Attempt to possess MDMA, possession of cocaine: felony weight
- Plea Agreement: Six-year cap
- Arrested on warrant in court
