8 counts reduced to unlawful sexual intercourse, false imprisonment and human trafficking in plea offer

After the case being dismissed the first time, mistrial the second time, a plea deal was reached right before the third trial started for David Anderson, a suspect who was originally charged with kidnapping, rape by force, forcible oral copulation of minor victim over age of 14, sexual battery, unlawful sexual intercourse, threats to commit crime resulting in death, false imprisonment and human trafficking.

Anderson has been represented for all three trials by private defense attorney Benjamin McLaughlin, who was appointed by the court as Anderson's attorney. The case was prosecuted each time by DDA Luke Brownfield .

I only had a few minutes to check the court computer today and until a plea is accepted by the Judge and stated in court, it is not final. From what I could see in the few minutes, is what I am sharing about the plea. I did try and reach Mr. McLaughlin.

The plea deal offer, has yet to be accepted by Judge Reinholtsen and sentencing is scheduled for this afternoon. If it is accepted, it looks like it would result in  8 counts being reduced to three counts. This is according to the information on the court computers this morning and Anderson would plead to unlawful sexual intercourse, false imprisonment, and human trafficking. He would not have to register for some of these offenses and they may not count as a strke.

If you read the previous posts and do a search on this blog, you will see there were issues with the first two trials and witnesses.

According to the computer, the maximum sentence would be for 9 years and 4 months. Again, that is the max, there is a range so don't take this as set in stone. I will update with a post regarding the actual plea after the sentencing is final this afternoon.

I am updating this post as of 1:25 because Mr. McLaughlin confirmed that the plea offer as I summarized above is correct.

Previous posts:

http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2014/03/anderson-prelim-today-case-to-proceed.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2014/04/human-trafficking-with-minor-new-count.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2014/06/because-of-my-situation-i-felt-i-had-no.html
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2014/07/mistrial-declared-in-david-anderson.html