Here is an update of a story we previously posted here about the sentencing of Amanda Chatterton-Miller.
Amanda Chatterton-Miller sentenced
ESCANABA - A Gladstone woman who said she was brutally sexually assaulted last year was sentenced Tuesday to four months in Delta County Jail on two counts of attempted filing of a false report of a felony.
Amanda Chatterton Miller, 27, claimed she was sexually assaulted by a stranger on Feb. 27, 2008, in Brampton Township. She told police in the hospital emergency room she was kidnapped, beaten and raped, and also a victim of sodomy.
Following an intensive two-day hunt for the suspect, Miller confessed to police she had lied about being assaulted by a man who never existed. She told police she and her husband, Gilbert Tryan, made up the story so he wouldn't get in trouble.
During her sentencing in Delta County Circuit Court Tuesday, Miller declined to make a statement. Her attorney, Russ Hall, did speak on her behalf.
"This is a situation where basically a person has been battered during most of her married life," Hall said. "Her first reaction was to make a false statement to protect her husband. She doesn't have a criminal record."
Circuit Court Judge Stephen Davis told Miller, "You have gone from being a victim of domestic violence to being a perpetrator of public crime." Davis said her false police report resulted in an investigation of smoke.
In addition to the four months in jail, Davis ordered Miller to 18 months probation on each of the two counts of attempted filing of a false police report, to be served concurrently. She was also ordered to pay restitution to be determined, $526 in fines and costs, and attorney fees to be determined.
During Miller's plea hearing in July, she agreed to make a sworn truthful statement so authorities could do a follow-up investigation, which may include additional arrests. In exchange for the plea agreement, the prosecution agreed to dismiss four counts against the defendant.
Troopers arrested Miller on March 31 after waiting on DNA evidence for more than a year. She was originally charged with four counts of filing false police reports for criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping, assault with intent to commit sexual penetration, and attempted sodomy.
Link:
http://www.dailypress.net/page/content.detail/id/514701.html
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
15 comments:
4 months in jail is not enough.
anon,
Considering that no one was arrested for her false claim, I am willing to concede 4 months. It also looks like she will be making monetary renumeration in this case. I would estimate that she will get hit with at least a $10K bill. That is fine, as far as I'm concerned. YMMV.
"This is a situation where basically a person has been battered during most of her married life," Hall said. "Her first reaction was to make a false statement to protect her husband. She doesn't have a criminal record."
BULL SHIT. She was never abused. As usual the courts are so stupid that they condemn her for lying and at the same time blindly accept yet another set of lies straight from the same mouth. What a gullible idiot. Four months? What an insult.
This system is a joke!
She deserves AT MINIMUM four years. This is a hate crime!
The Archivist, I don't agree. This sentence of 4 months is an attempt to split down the middle and please both sides. Obviously, organized feminists believe she was raped. Women are always innocent by default. They see it as just the same old patriarchal system at work. Then there's people like us who believe in EQUAL justice. In order for this to stop, there has to be equal time spent for false rape.
RM
I'll stop to point out the obvious: the only reason she's being sentenced at all is because she didn't have a victim! If there was a flesh and blood man to scapegoat then she would just get away with it, like Crystal Mangum and nearly every other woman who rape fakes.
We need to take care to never lapse into a chivalrous mindset where we imagine that we can afford to bestow mercy on false rape accusers. We can't. Men are easy prey and we must take a strong, firm stance against this scum.
The words I'm looking for are ZERO TOLERANCE. We must demand a ZERO TOLERANCE policy for false rape accusations.
No excuses, ever!
Anonymous said...
The Archivist, I don't agree. This sentence of 4 months is an attempt to split down the middle and please both sides. Obviously, organized feminists believe she was raped. Women are always innocent by default. They see it as just the same old patriarchal system at work. Then there's people like us who believe in EQUAL justice. In order for this to stop, there has to be equal time spent for false rape.
RM
http://www.equaljusticefoundation.com/
Anonymous said...
The words I'm looking for are ZERO TOLERANCE. We must demand a ZERO TOLERANCE policy for false rape accusations.
No excuses, ever!
I agree ( including other false accusers as well )
In order for this to stop, there has to be equal time spent for false rape.
RM,
I agree. In this instance, no one was detained/arrested for her false rape claim. Add in the amount that she monetarily has to pay, 4 months in jail, and the probation for 18 months, I am satisfied.
Now, if someone had been arrested, then no, 4 months isn't even close.
"http://www.equaljusticefoundation.com/"
What is this, spam?
There is no reason to be lenient because there wasn't a victim. That there wasn't a victim is pure accident. Her evil actions are identical either way. 4 months is an insult to the victims of false rape accusations, many of whom have been incarcerated for far longer than that.
This sends a message: lie about rape and you will get a slap on the wrist at worst.
And if there had been a victim her sentence would have been even lighter, or non-existent. We must never enable these liars by supporting an inappropriately light sentence.
By the way, the idea behind locking the bitch up is so there won't be a victim the next time. The other idea is to deter other liars who will have victims.
Anonymous said...
"http://www.equaljusticefoundation.com/"
What is this, spam?
No. It is the link to an orgainzation that is fighting for equal justice.
Post a Comment