Former Police Officer Wins Bid for New Sentence in Assault Case

A former police officer convicted of assault will get a new sentence after the Tenth Circuit found Monday that the trial court wrongly held him to a higher standard at sentencing because of his occupation.

Jordan Thompson was properly convicted of one count of assault with a deadly weapon after entering his estranged wife’s home and threatening to shoot a man he found there with her, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said.

But the appeals court held that it was reasonably probable that removing one of two aggravating factors would have resulted in a lower sentence. ...