LaBooth gets 7 years after skipping out on earlier sentencing
YOUNGSTOWN
There was no way Richard LaBooth could run Tuesday.
The East Avondale Avenue man, 36, who walked out of his sentencing hearing in June in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on a charge of felonious assault and was on the lam until December, was shackled, cuffed and watched carefully as he was given a sentence of seven years by Judge Lou D’Apolito.
It was his second court appearance since being captured in December by U.S. marshals in Columbus, roughly six months after he left the courthouse during a break in his sentencing hearing. By leaving and being gone for so long, Judge D’Apolito said he forfeited any mercy on the part of the court.
“He demonstrated to me by his conduct he deserves no consideration by this court,” Judge D’Apolito said.
Read more about his case in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.