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LAKEPORT, Calif. — A judge on Tuesday put off the sentencing of a former Lakeport business owner facing prison for possession of child pornography.
Judge Shanda Harry continued the sentencing hearing of Jeffery Scott Cramer, 60, to April, said District Attorney Susan Krones.
Two weeks ago, when Cramer’s sentencing hearing had been set to take place, Harry rejected a plea agreement Krones’ office had reached with Cramer, who was arrested in May 2020 as the result of a Lake County Sheriff’s Office investigation.
Investigators said Cramer, who formerly owned Main Street Bicycles, had uploaded child pornography through social media accounts.
The District Attorney’s Office offered a plea agreement to Cramer that had him entering a no contest plea to felony possession of child pornography in exchange for dismissing a charge of bringing obscene materials that depict a minor in a sex act into the state.
The agreement would allow him to serve no prison time but instead to do up to two years of probation, along with lifetime registration as a sex offender.
However, Harry rejected that agreement in the Jan. 31 hearing, indicating she intended to sentence him to two years in state prison.
Among her reasons, Harry said Cramer didn’t just have child pornography in his possession, but that he created “tribute videos” of himself masturbating to the images and then uploaded them to pornography sites.
“This was not a passive exploration of pictures,” Harry said at the time.
Cramer’s attorney, Jane Gaskell of Santa Rosa, asked for more time, explaining that the plea was based on Cramer receiving probation, not prison time.
In response, Harry continued the hearing until Tuesday afternoon.
On Tuesday, the decision was made to continue the hearing again until 3 p.m. April 4 in Harry’s courtroom.
Krones said Harry wanted to update the information in the probation report that advises her on the sentence. The defense also asked for that report to be updated.
The defense indicated on Tuesday that Cramer will not withdraw his plea, Krones said.
Krones said Cramer is still looking at a prison sentence, as Harry had indicated at the previous hearing.
She said it’s likely to be a two-year sentence, “but obviously we will not know until the sentencing.”
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Child pornography possession case continued to April
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