Former Ranger Security security guard Justin Wissinger, who shot and killed Dant e Price in 2012, was denied by a judge in his effort to get early release. Wissinger, 28, had petitioned Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Timothy O Connell to get out two years early from his four-year sentence . A hearing was held Aug .
26 in which Wissinger s attorneys, prosecutors and Price s parents spoke1. Attorney Christopher Conard argued that Wissinger would have more supervision and more access to corrective programming if he was on community control.
We re disappointed, Conard said Wednesday . We believe that the community control locally with a blend that may or may not have included (the MonDay correctional facility) would have been in the best interests of not only the community, and securing the interests of rehabilitation, but also to provide supervision and accountability in a way that s different.
Wissinger and Christopher Tarbert shot and killed Price, 25, on March 1, 2012 as Price was in his car near the Summit Square Apartments . They had illegally ordered Price out of his car at gunpoint because he had been trespassed after visiting his girlfriend and young son. When Price did not get out of the car and continued driving slowly, they shot 17 times at the vehicle. They both pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and abduction.2
The court finds that the interest in deterrence weighs in favor of continued incarceration, O Connell wrote, describing the competing factors for and against Wissinger s motion . The court is mindful of the fact that Dant e Price leaves behind a son.
Wissinger made bond and spent two years on home arrest . Tarbert, who was in jail before his case was finished, served all four years and was released in July. O Connell noted that Wissinger had no juvenile or adult record before the shooting and that, in the judge s eyes, the offender shows remorse for the offense. O Connell wrote that educators and commentators of the criminal justice discipline would argue that the court should consider whether there are different weights to the factors .
Not all factors weigh the same in a given circumstance. Price s mother, Saprena Riley, had said it would be a slap in the face if O Connell granted judicial release to Wissinger. Price s father, Steven, said: He can do four years . We got to do the rest of our lives without our son.
Conard has said that if his client was denied in his motion, Wissinger would have have to finish his sentence . which has an anticipated release date of Oct .
6, 2018.
References
- ^ Wissinger s attorneys, prosecutors and Price s parents spoke (www.daytondailynews.com)
- ^ They both pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and abduction. (www.daytondailynews.com)