30 year old Curl Gordon, Jr. is spending the first night of 3 year sentence, which was handed down this morning from Justice Adolph Lucas. Gordon was convicted of committing an indecent assault on a 7 year old girl by a 9 member jury on last week Thursday. During the trial, the child testified against him that he touched her inappropriately. The mother corroborated the story telling the court that she saw Gordon on top of the child moving up and down.
An examination of the child revealed that she was not carnally known, and so, he was only charged with indecent assault. In his defense, Gordon told the court that he is innocent of the charge and that the mother of the child set her up to tell lies on him. This morning, no one appeared to speak on Gordon's behalf and in his mitigation, he begged the court to be lenient on him since it was his first conviction. He also told the court that his wife is expecting his child, and he doesn't know how she will be able to provide it. Gordon then asked the court to please consider the one year he had already spent on remand, and to subtract it from whatever time he would be given.
Judge Lucas then took into consideration that this was Gordon's first conviction and the time he spent on remand, then sentenced him to 3 years. The one year he spent in prison was subtracted from that, so he will spend two years on prison effective today.
