Man Gets Sentence Reduced From 264 Years To 40
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Posted: 9:15 PM Nov 7, 2009
Man Gets Sentence Reduced From 264 Years To 40
A Colorado Springs man serving a 264-year sentence for a violent burglary has seen his sentence slashed to 40 years.
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A Colorado Springs man serving a 264-year sentence for a violent burglary has seen his sentence slashed to 40 years.

Thirty-one-year-old Jeremy Michael Petschow got the reduced sentence after getting a new trial because of mistakes made by his original attorney. He's already served nine years.

Petschow's second trial ended in a mistrial. Petschow later took a plea deal that allowed him to maintain he was not the triggerman, but an accomplice, in the 2000 robbery in which the homeowner was shot. District Judge Theresa Cisneros on Friday imposed a pair of consecutive 20-year terms.

Petschow was orginally convicted of attempted murder and 27 other crimes in a string of burglaries in the Colorado Springs area.

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Posted by: sled Location: colorado springs on Nov 8, 2009 at 07:42 AM

Our community cannot afford to let VIOLENT criminals back on the streets. Petschow was not an unarmed burglar, this was ATTEMPTED MURDER. If Petschow wasn't the trigger man, then who was? Do they want us to believe all the suspects were just accomplice? In 20 short years or less this VIOLENT criminal could be back in our community, organizing a string of violent “home invasions”. That’s what this was a home invasion, not unarmed burglary. Good thing we have the “make my day law” makes me want to go buy more ammunition to protect my family. Judge Cisneros and our public servants failed to serve our community on this one.
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