- Elizabeth Larson
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Woman sentenced in perjury case
On Monday, 34-year-old Shannon M. Mick was sentenced in Lake County Superior Court, according to District Attorney Don Anderson.
Mick had pleaded no contest to one count of felony perjury on Dec. 1, as Lake County News has reported: http://bit.ly/2yaf6rX.
Perjury carries a maximum sentence of four years; however, Anderson said Mick received far less time due to having had no previous criminal history – not even a parking ticket.
He said she received 60 days in the Lake County Jail, three years felony probation and 200 hours of community service.
Anderson said Mick had lied during a custody case involving her 3-year-old child. Her ex-husband – a Lake County resident – filed an affidavit in June 2015, requesting full legal and physical custody of his child, alleging that Mick had subjected the child to domestic violence from her boyfriend, Mike Alexander, as well as alcohol abuse.
Mick denied the allegations of domestic violence both in affidavits she submitted and in testimony she gave in court, Anderson said.
Evidence presented in court showed there was documentation by the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office of a domestic violence incident in January 2015 in which Mick was assaulted by her boyfriend.
The court ultimately found that there was evidence of domestic violence and that Mick was responsible for “some level of deliberate falsehoods,” based on the ruling.
The Lake County District Attorney’s Office subsequently filed perjury charges against Mick for making false statements in the affidavits and the court testimony.
Anderson said Mick has to report March 29 to the Lake County Jail to begin serving her sentence.
The prosecution was handled by Deputy District Attorney Daniel Flesch as part of the work of the Lake County District Attorney’s Office’s Perjury Intervention Unit, Anderson said.
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