Judge Sentences Defendant to Nearly 7 Months in Jail

By D.C. Witness Staff - July 10, 2020
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A DC Superior Court judge sentenced a defendant to nearly seven months in jail with credit for time served. She has around two and a half months left to spend.

Andrea Richardson pleaded guilty to threats to do bodily harm and unlawful entry of private property. She was initially charged with first-degree burglary. The defendant is a transgender woman.

Richardson, 58, was sentenced to 120 days for both charges. The sentences will run concurrently with each other.

Richardson was also sentenced to 90 days for attempted possession of a prohibited weapon, which is set to run consecutively to her other sentences.

She also received credit for time served.

Richardson is required to pay a total of $150 to the Victims of Violent Crime Act fund.

Defense attorney Sabityu Abou said her client suffered from substance abuse. Richardson was allegedly intoxicated at the time of the offenses.

Abou said the defendant has her own home.

“I take responsibility for everything that happened,” the defendant said. “I truly apologize.”

Judge John Campbell said Richardson is “not a good candidate for probation” since she stopped contacting parole officers in her previous convictions of robbery and burglary.

Richardson kicked in the back door of a random house on the 1900 block of Lincoln Road, NE, according to court documents. She left the building after an occupant chased her out of the house. 

Later that day, she pointed a broken beer bottle at someone waiting for a bus on the 100 block of T Street, NE. Documents state that Richardson told the person, I’m going to f*** you up, I told you.”