Judge Sara Spencer-Noggle would have preferred to send Brian Kolodziej, a former state prosecutor who falsified a police report and had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a rape victim in a case he was prosecuting, to jail.
Former state prosecutor Brian Kolodziej was sentenced to two year probation on Friday, after pleading no contest to two charges of willful neglect of duty.
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But at Kolodziej’s sentencing hearing Friday, the Isabella County Circuit Court judge said she could only give Kolodziej two years of probation, community service, and mandatory mental health treatment.
Judge Spencer-Noggle told the court that legislative sentencing guidelines meant she “cannot, as a matter of law, impose a jail sentence,” even though she believed it would be an “appropriate sanction” in this “highly disturbing case.”
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To save herself from any further attack, the girlfriend reportedly escaped the house for help and Gardenhire allegedly fatally stabbed the woman s 13-year-old daughter. When the woman returned home with police officers, she reportedly found her child covered in stab wounds. Despite all the efforts to save her, the unnamed teenager succumbed to her injuries.
Gardenhire allegedly then went to another house and took hostages of a man and a woman while cops searched for him. He also allegedly repeatedly sexually abused the woman and then took the pairâs money and car, Barberi stated, who added, âThis is certainly a horrific tragedy and a completely senseless loss of life. We know that these events caused the entire community to be on edge. Weâre confident that any harm or fear that was caused by Mr Gardenhire is now over, as he is in custody. Our focus now is on the healing of the victims involved in this case and providing any services we can and the opportunity to deliv