DC Superior Court Judge Andrea Hertzfeld amended a domestic stabbing defendant’s sentence to allow her imprisonment at a halfway house during an April 24 hearing.
Latanya Leonard, 56, was sentenced on Feb. 27 to 360 days incarceration, all but 180 suspended, followed by one year of probation for simple assault, possession of a prohibited weapon, and two counts of contempt for her involvement in a domestic violence related stabbing on the 300 block of N Street, NE on Jan. 13. Leonard cut her boyfriend’s arm with a kitchen knife.
At the hearing, Judge Hertzfeld stated she permitted Leonard to serve the remainder of her sentence in a halfway house. According to court records, Leonard’s incarceration started on Jan. 14. Therefore, her 180 day sentence would end on July 13.
Louis Kamara, Leonard’s attorney, requested his client’s release to home confinement at her mother or grandma’s residence, but the judge denied the request. Judge Hertzfeld stated that the halfway house placement was the only approved option.
No further dates were set.
