Randall receives 10-year sentence

A Clarendon woman received a ten-year sentence when the district court met here last Tuesday, November 29.

A contested revocation resulted in the maximum sentence of April Randall.

District Attorney Luke Inman prosecuted the case for the State of Texas with the Honorable Judge Stuart Messer presiding.

Randall, 25, pleaded true to allegations listed in the State’s Motion to Adjudicate Guilt of Defendant.  After the plea of true, a punishment hearing was held where the State called one witness.

The State called Marci Mills, a probation officer with the 100th Judicial District Community Supervision Corrections Department.

Mills testified that Randall had committed two other misdemeanor offenses which she had been convicted of after being placed on probation in the 100th Judicial District.

After all the testimony and evidence was presented, Randall was convicted and sentenced to ten years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

On November 16, 2010, Randall originally pleaded guilty to the third degree felony offense of retaliation that occurred on July 17, 2010.

This criminal case stems from a criminal jury trial in which Randall’s husband, Michael Randall, was convicted and sentenced by a Donley County jury on a sexual assault of a child, according to Inman.

“Victims and witnesses that come forward and testify in criminal proceedings must be protected,” said Inman.  “The Donley County Sheriff’s Office was able to diffuse a hostile situation quickly and protect an eyewitness from April Randall shortly after the jury trial against her husband concluded.”

According to Inman, Randall accosted a testifying witness at the Dollar General after Randall’s husband was sentenced to 13 years in the Institutional Division of the TDCJ.

The State filed the motion to adjudicate on March 31, 2011, alleging one violation of community supervision.

Randall is also required to pay $437 in court costs to Donley County.