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'Shocking conduct': Judge hands down 25-year prison term in kidnapping of woman and child Everett Simpson was sentenced
https://vtdigger.org/2024/06/17/shocking-conduct-judge-hands-down-25-year-prison-term-in-kidnapping-of-woman-and-child/‘Shocking conduct’: Judge hands down 25-year prison term in kidnapping of woman and child
Everett Simpson was sentenced Monday for the 2019 crimes that started after he fled a court-ordered residential treatment facility in Vermont and ended with a high-speed chase in Pennsylvania.
By Alan J. Keays
June 17, 2024, 5:40 pm
BURLINGTON — A judge has sentenced a former St. Johnsbury man to 25 years in prison for kidnapping a woman and her son in New Hampshire in 2019 after he had fled from a court-ordered substance use disorder treatment program in Vermont.
“It’s shocking conduct,” Judge William K. Sessions III said Monday in federal court in Burlington as he handed down the prison term to Everett Simpson.
Simpson, 46, has had many attorneys over the years as the case against him has been pending. More recently, he represented himself at his trial last year and did so again Monday during his sentencing hearing.
A jury convicted Simpson in April 2023 after two hours of deliberations following a weeklong trial of two counts of kidnapping and two charges related to a stolen vehicle.
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Everett Simpson was sentenced Monday for the 2019 crimes that started after he fled a court-ordered residential treatment facility in Vermont and ended with a high-speed chase in Pennsylvania.
By Alan J. Keays
June 17, 2024, 5:40 pm
BURLINGTON — A judge has sentenced a former St. Johnsbury man to 25 years in prison for kidnapping a woman and her son in New Hampshire in 2019 after he had fled from a court-ordered substance use disorder treatment program in Vermont.
“It’s shocking conduct,” Judge William K. Sessions III said Monday in federal court in Burlington as he handed down the prison term to Everett Simpson.
Simpson, 46, has had many attorneys over the years as the case against him has been pending. More recently, he represented himself at his trial last year and did so again Monday during his sentencing hearing.
A jury convicted Simpson in April 2023 after two hours of deliberations following a weeklong trial of two counts of kidnapping and two charges related to a stolen vehicle.
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