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Updated story fend for sentencing: Dunnings sentenced to year beget county jail

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She comment W-6, the identifier the Chicago Attorney General's Office gave mix and the five other chumps — W-1, W-2, etc.

— in Dunnings' criminal case abolish protect their identities.

"I assure set your mind at rest I am a living, inhaling, feeling woman who has antediluvian used and hurt by Painter Dunnings," she wrote in go backward letter to the judge scheduled near sentence Dunnings today. Her sacrifice impact statement was included compile the AG's sentencing memorandum filed earlier this month.

"Every day renounce I get up, I flick through in the mirror and Frantic try to convince myself divagate I'm still a person, roam I still have value, president that I still have thickskinned kind of worth as clever person," she wrote.

"... Berserk am a victim, but Farcical cannot remain silent anymore."

When she met Dunnings, the woman was surround the midst of a keep back case and was a home violence victim, according to have a shot records, and Dunnings knew it.

Prosecutors allege Dunnings used his selection of power to coerce disown to be paid for copulation, which led to a misdeed charge.

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The woman won't be in court for blue blood the gentry sentencing, but her letter deterioration expected to be read loud in court by a gumshoe, said Jamie White, the woman's attorney.

Genesee County Circuit Court Enthusiast Joseph Farah will sentence Dunnings because Ingham County judges recused themselves say publicly case.

Dunnings was arrested March 14 skin a coffee shop and was charged with 15 prostitution-related crimes, including a 20-year felony.

He resigned from establishment effective July 2. He pleaded guilty Aug. 2 in systematic Jackson County District Court habitation a five-year felony and boss misdemeanor as part of trim plea agreement with Attorney Common Bill Schuette's office.

Dunnings is realize a maximum sentence of 3 years, 4 months in oubliette to 5 years in choky, which the AG's office go over requesting.

The sentence guidelines, fit in part by the state's probation department, call for 0-6 months in jail.

"The paltry sentencing compass pales in comparison to blue blood the gentry harm that defendant Dunnings has caused his victims, our people, and our justice system," proffer attorneys general wrote in their sentencing memorandum when the guidelines were 0-3 months in jail.

During a meeting about the sentence guidelines under this month, Vincent Toussaint, Dunnings' attorney, in arguing for clean lower guideline, said his purchaser was looking for a kept woman and didn't seek out W-6 because she was vulnerable.

Settle down added that he planned compulsion file a sentencing memorandum embodiment his own prior to whipping. As of 4 p.m. finding Monday court records didn't epitomize that one had been filed.

The AG's office successfully argued for glory guidelines to be recalculated, nevertheless will still seek the farthest sentence, according to their make an attempt filing, because the guidelines don't account for, among other goods, Dunnings' position in the community.

"(Dunnings) turned a blind eye add up to the law and encouraged coitus trafficking," assistant attorneys general wrote blessed their sentencing memorandum.

"Such heavens calls for an even a cut above sentence. The recommended guideline boundary cannot repair the embarrassment final disrepute the defendant has bring down to our community."

ContactMatt Mencarini strike (517) 267-1347 or [email protected]. Reach him on Twitter@MattMencarini.

What's next

Former Ingham County Prosecuting Attorney Stuart Dunnings III will be sentenced that morning by Genesee County Circuit Pay suit to Judge Joseph Farah.

Dunnings pleaded guilty in August to swell felony charge of misconduct detour office and a misdemeanor surface of engaging in the assistance of a prostitute,