Police and courts in the Lexington, Ky., area
By DAVID BROCK
dbrock@amnews.com
HARRODSBURG- The Kentucky Supreme Court has vacated the sentence of life without parole for confessed killer Louis Lee Anderson and remanded the case to Mercer County Circuit Court for resentencing.
No date has been set yet for a hearing.
Anderson pleaded guilty to the 2006 robbery and murder of retired teacher Louise Pulliam of Harrodsburg and was given life without parole by Judge Darren Peckler.
Read the full story in the Danville Advocate-Messenger
By Greg Kocher
gkocher1@herald-leader.com
HARRODSBURG — Former Mercer County Clerk Ronnie Compton was sentenced Tuesday to a five-year diversion program in which he agreed to pay $10,240 in restitution.
Compton, 45, had been charged with theft by failure to make required disposition of property. He entered an Alford plea in September.
Under an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges that there’s evidence for possible conviction.
An indictment in June alleged that Compton had dealt with money in the clerk’s office as his own.
Compton, who works for a car dealer, has five years to make restitution. Compton had no comment after Tuesday’s sentencing before Mercer Circuit Court Judge Darren Peckler.
If Compton fails to repay the money or gets into trouble, he faces a one-year prison sentence.
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