2017-01-20
17-year sentence for false imprisonment of 11-year-old girl "overly punitive", appeal lawyers submit
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Keenan Johnson sentenced Martin at Portloaise Circuit Criminal Court to 17 years imprisonment with the final four suspended on November 5, 2015. The sentencing judge remarked that he would have imposed a life sentence on Martin but that measure was not available to him, Mr White said.