Kirkpatrick’s new sentence mirrors the original one

Kirkpatrick’s new sentence mirrors the original one

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — A sentencing error didn’t change the amount of time Jason Kirkpatrick will spend in prison.

Kirkpatrick, 30, formerly of Warren, returned to Trumbull County Common Pleas Court this week and received the same nine-year prison sentence that Judge John M. Stuard gave him a year ago.

The only difference Thursday was the way the judge worded the sentence.

The 11th District Court of Appeals in Warren had ordered Judge Stuard to resentence Kirkpatrick because the judge ordered Kirkpatrick to serve nine years in prison on a charge of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of eight years.

Kirkpatrick, however, had also been found guilty of 16 counts of breaking and entering, so Judge Stuard just sentenced Kirkpatrick to one additional year on the breaking-and- entering charges.

Kirkpatrick was part of a burglary ring in Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties that stole riding lawn mowers, motorcycles and a variety of other items from as many as 30 businesses between summer 2006 and January 2007.