Matthew O’Neill
A judge has ordered a convicted sex offender, an Albuquerque lawyer, released from a three-year prison sentence into a monitored program with the Bernalillo County jail.
The reason: He cannot get sex offender treatment in prison due to the pandemic.
On Feb. 17, 2nd Judicial District Judge Courtney Weaks suspended two years of 51-year-old Matthew O’Neill’s prison sentence.
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Weaks ordered O’Neill transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center to serve the remaining year in the Community Custody Program. Under the order, O’Neill would be released but would have to check in with MDC regularly, register as a sex offender, wear an ankle monitor and abide by other conditions – such as not being around anyone under the age of 18, aside from his children.