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- August 25, 2020
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A DC Superior Court judge sentenced a defendant to six months of unsupervised probation.
Jarret Young pleaded guilty to carrying a pistol without a license outside a home or business in December of 2019. He picked up the charge on Sept. 17, 2018.
“It all was a huge mistake,” Young said during the Aug. 25 hearing. “…I didn’t mean to cause anyone any harm.”
The prosecution did not recommend that Young spend any time incarcerated, noting how he took responsibility for his actions. The prosecutor asked Judge Gerald Fisher to give the defendant a suspended sentence plus six months of supervised probation.
Although the offense occurred in DC, the defendant lives in Virginia.
Defense attorney Elizabeth Weller expressed concern about the expenses that may come with doing probation in Virginia.
Weller asked that her client’s probation be unsupervised. “I don’t think I’d ask for this if it weren’t for the pandemic,” she said.
Judge Fisher agreed to make the probation unsupervised. Young must also pay $100 to the Victims of Violent Crime compensation fund.