seven years in prison. that includes the possibility of another year in county jail. with the misdemeanor, right. jon: with the misdemeanor charge against her. appropriate punishment fitting crime? yes. she won t get near that i think should get full eight years. because of the plea deal she accepted responsibility which means the sentence goes down, it is lower. i think the judge will split the seven-year possibility in half. give her 3 1/2 and have the misdemeanor run concurrent, not 3 1/2 consecutive which would give her an extra year. they re putting that. not putting government to trial. she is pleading guilty. she knows she want win. no defense. on the other side the prosecutor is not so happy to go to trial because she will use oh, i was in love defense. jon: esther she did back out of the plan that would have made her the getaway driver. had she participated in that, this whole thing could have ended up much more horribly than it did with a lot of dead people including her.
right to have her charges presented in front of the grand jury. that would be another sign of cooperating. we ve seen in the past her telling about all that she was accused of doing in terms of helping with this prison break. let s go over first what some of the charges she s facing. first-degree promoting prison contraband. you talked about smuggling in some hacksaw blades. fourth-degree criminal facilitation for her role in helping these two guys get out, david sweat and richard matt. she could be looking at as much as eight years in prison. her attorney telling me he is hoping for some sort of plea deal. now, in terms of what she s accused of again, just to review a little bit here. she was supposed to be the alleged getaway driver. apparently got cold feet decided she wasn t going to do that. provided tools to cut through the cell walls. the d.a. telling me it was a hacksaw hacksaw, chisels, and a punch tool. also her cell phone was used to reach out to some of richard
she has been charged with aiding the escape of david sweat and richard matt who broke out clinton correctional facility and were on the run for 23 days. mitch chill was shackled at hands and fight. didn t say a whole lot and when she did speak she was very quiet in open court. she admitted investigators in the role getting the men hacksaw blades a chisel and other tools, hiding some of it in hamburger meat and some in cardboard she was able to smuggle with the help of at least one prison corrections officer allegedly able to smuggle those tools to these two men so could saw and cut their way out of prison. she was expected to be getaway driver and got cold feet and wound up checking herself into a hospital. her husband lyle was in court. he was sitting two seats away from me. when the person next to me asked a question he blew up on them. i have nothing to say. do not bother me. i have had enough of your lies. you do not print the truth. do not bother me. i offered lyle a chance to tel
after the men escaped. she had sexual rips with one or more of the man and put tools inside of pieces cardboard and raw hamburger meat. mitchell agreed to be getaway driver but apparently got cold feet on night of june 6th afterring a chinese dinner with her husband. she did not pick up the men but checked herself in a hospital with signs of a panic attack. she will be in court this morning. bill: thank you, rick leventhal watching that story. next hour, headlines from there. thank you, rick, plattsburgh, new york. martha: horrible story this week. two teenagers lost at sea. the frantic search to find them now in the full day four. why family and friends of these two boys firmly believe they have every reason to think they could be hanging on out there. bill: a lot of hope right? ohio governor john kasich coming out strong since he kicked off
and is keeping officers informed of the car s every turn. we have a really good working relationship with the local police departments here and the dispatch center. they are watching us on tv. and so they are kind of seeing what we are doing. and they can relay to the police officers. you know, we ve still got the eye in the sky, man. you are not going anywhere that we don t know about. no matter how fast their car is, no matter how great a getaway driver they think they are, you never realize you can t outrun a police two-way radio. but they always seem to try. that s the thing that makes you scratch your head. the white suv pulls off the congested roads and turns into a residential area. this guy is becoming a definite hazard to everybody, kevin. absolutely. that s a deadly threat. out of camera view, police start closing the distance. someone throws what turns out to be stolen goods from the suv. now that seems to be the