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Fri Dec 23, 2022, 10:09 AM Dec 2022

Ex-officer gets jail time for assault on handcuffed woman [View all]

https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/Ex-officer-gets-jail-time-for-assault-on-17672472.php

Ex-officer gets jail time for assault on handcuffed woman

Dec. 22, 2022

MONTEPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A former Vermont police officer who admitted to striking a handcuffed woman in a holding cell has been sentenced to up to six months in jail.

Jason Lawton 34, a former sergeant with the St. Albans Police Department, was sentenced Wednesday in Superior Court to three to six months behind bars, according to the state attorney general’s office.

Lawton had previously pleaded guilty to misdemeanor simple assault in connection with the November 2019 incident. He faced a maximum of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. A judge ordered him to report to jail on Jan. 14.

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