When you’re LEO murdering brother asks you to help him and his accomplice hide, TELL HIM NO!
The sister of cop killer Maurice Clemmons was sentenced this morning to five years in prison for helping her brother’s alleged getaway driver following the massacre of four Lakewood police officers late last year.
A jury convicted LaTanya Clemmons, 34, of two counts of first-degree rendering criminal assistance last Thursday.
Pierce County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Arend previously ruled that LaTanya Clemmons should be sentenced on only one count.
Pierce County prosecutors Stephen Penner and Kevin McCann filed a pleading Tuesday asking Arend to reconsider that ruling. They wanted Arend to sentence Clemmons on both counts, to a maximum of 10 years in prison.
Arend stuck with her prior ruling Thursday morning and sentenced LaTanya Clemmons to five years in prison. The standard range for rendering criminal assistance is six months to a year in jail, but the jury found that Clemmons’ crimes were worse than normal, qualifying her for the maximum penalty prescribed by law.
I’m relatively happy with five. Though I won’t cry if she gets the 10 year sentence.
My only worry about her getting the full 10 is that they’ll see this first conviction as “job done” and go easy on the rest of the family.
While for some people “it’s all about family,” it also helps to have the *right* family and not simply “my family right or wrong”…