Charged for 333 charges, the former trial server in Shawnee County could receive probation: understanding

A proposal for the guilt recognition agreement for the former trial server of the Sheriff’s office in Shawnee County, Andrew G. Johnson Jr., requests that he pleads guilty for 330 offenses and be placed under supervision – although he could receive another 60 for days of imprisonment.

In September, a great jury of the district court in Shawnee County accused Johnson for 333 charges related to the charges that they would have falsified the records regarding the communication of judicial documents.

The proposed pleading agreement, published on Thursday on the court’s website, asks Johnson to plead for 328 charges of offense for providing false information, an accusation of false testimony and an accusation of official deviation in exchange for rejecting two charges. of offense of official. deviation and a crime of theft.

Johnson, 53, signed the agreement in one place and paraphrased in another 14. The document also includes the signatures of Johnson’s defense lawyer, Thomas G. Lemon, and Deputy Prosecutor Kevin S. Keatley.

The court site on Friday did not contain any registration of any established data for the agreement to be considered by Gunnar Sundby, the main judge of the Supreme Court of Kansas, Marla Lukert, appointed to preside the case. Kansas has about half a dozen retired higher judges who are assigned in cases as needed.

A spokeswoman for the district prosecutor of Shawnee County, Mike Kagay, did not respond to the emails sent by Capital-Journal on Thursday morning and Friday, asking about the programming for which the agreement will be considered.

The agreement allows Johnson to receive 60 days of “shock” in prison

District judges who impose sentences in Kansas are guided by Kansas sentence gridwhich specifies the presumptive terms in months for the offenses committed on or after July 1, 1993. Based on the severity of the crime and the criminal record of the defendant, The grid sets the minimum, standard and maximum penalty intervals for drugs related to drugs and non-drugs.

The orientations regarding the sentence identify the most serious accusation for which an defendant is convicted as the “control” charges.

The most serious accusations that Johnson is facing are the provision of false information and the offenses of official wrong conduct, both listed in the guidelines regarding the sentence as “level 8 offenses without persons”. The probation is recommended for the convicted defendants for crimes of level 8, except for the defendants who have two or more previous convictions for crimes, say those guidelines.

“The accusation of control is a non-person level offense,” the proposed pleading agreement for Johnson shows. “The underlying punishment would be double compared to the aggravated number. For example, if the defendant is a criminal record “I” (which the parties believe is), would be an 18 -month sentence suspended at 18 months of supervised probation. The state will ask for 60 days of shock in prison and the defendant is free to argue against this. ”

Johnson would also agree to pay “all verifiable refunds, including the refund for the rejected charges”, says in the proposed agreement.

Here’s what Andrew Johnson is accused of

Johnson worked for about six months as a civil trial server at the sheriff’s office, when the office found out at the end of June that it would have been possible to forge certain records related to the communication of judicial documents, said the Sheriff from Shawnee County, Brian Hill .

Johnson was abolished by the sheriff’s office on July 2, after a criminal investigation, he said.

Johnson is currently unemployed, the proposed plea agreement shows.

Among the accusations for which he was charged, the charges of providing false information claim that he “made, generated, distributed or, illegally and criminal, or made to realize, generate, distribute or draw any Written instrument, electronic data or registration. in a book of accounts ”.

Each of these accusations identifies specific judicial cases in which Johnson indicated that the process was performed “with the knowledge that such information is falsely affirmed or represents an important matter or is not what it claims to be and with the intention to fraud, Prevents the detection of a crime of theft or crime or inducing an official action ”.

Accusations for the provision of false information also identify by names, the persons and companies they should have served.

The official accusation of crime of the crime claims that Johnson “destroyed, illegally and knowingly hidden evidence of a serious crime” while he was a civil servant or employed.

One of the official deviation accusations claims that he illegally used a vehicle for private purposes.

The other claims that “he omitted illegally and knowingly to execute the civil process when requested by law.”

The accusation of contraventional theft claims that Johnson deprived the ownership of the Sheriff’s office in Shawnee County.

Over 600 judicial documents have been reported forged

A list of cases that may be affected were made public by the Shawnee County District Courtwith case numbers being available online Here. Johnson may have forged about 643 documents, the court said.

The list includes cases with limited action, civil cases, cases with state tax mandate, causes for minors, criminal causes, domestic causes, cases of minor children who need care, traffic cases, causes of minor debts, various civil causes and a diverse criminal case.

While most affected cases are from Shawnee County, the indictment identifies cases in counties such as Brown, Geary, Jackson, Johnson and others.

Contact Tim Hrenchir at [email protected] or 785-213-5934.

This article originally appeared on Topeka Capital-Journal: Proposed Agreement: The process server from former Shawnee County will receive probation