5 years for Bag Limit violation (was Re: OT:Year suspension...)

November 19, 2008

Here's the report:

Judge: Woman's Light Sentence Stands

In Son's Death

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Auburn, Cayuga County - A judge has ordered an upstate New York

woman who served five years in prison for setting her house on fire

and killing her autistic son to spend another year and a half on

parole after rejecting a bid by prosecutors to send her back to prison.

Visiting Cayuga County Court Judge Elma Bellini agreed Friday

that the original six-year sentence imposed on by the

trial judge was light, but said the prison term was within the range

allowed by law.

, who now lives in Poughkeepsie, pleaded guilty in March

2000 to first-degree manslaughter and second-degree arson for killing

13-year-old Leubner in 1999.

She admitted setting her home on fire while her son was sleeping

upstairs in the family's rural Cayuga County home. She claimed the boy

had repeatedly beaten and raped her, and she feared for the safety of

herself and her two daughters.

Although the prosecutor at the time asked for a 20-year sentence

for , Judge Corning, citing ' " extreme emotional

disturbance, " sentenced her to six years.

was released in May 2005, a year early for good behavior.

Corning, however, failed to include a required five-year term of

post-release supervision in his original sentence, a technicality

District Attorney Jon Budelmann used to try to win a new sentence he

considered more fitting for the severity of the crime.

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> > I'm with the mom... I want her fired, too! Who cares about

> > her " unblemished " record??? She ridiculed this tiny child in front of

> > his classmates! She further damaged the other kids by influencing

> > them to act maliciously against him. Disability or not, this child

> > was made the subject of bullying... a growing and intolerable problem

> > that this chick is supposed to teach against!!!! What she did is

> > despicable. I just retired from the field of Spec Ed. I've seen a few

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