BLOOMFIELD, Mo. (AP) - A southeast Missouri judge who sentenced a former pastor to prison in a foiled murder-for-hire plot says he’ll resentence the man on an unrelated conviction of defrauding his late mother.
The (Poplar Bluff) Daily American Republic (https://bit.ly/1MK0zJM) reports that Scott County Circuit Judge David Dolan will consider ordering 71-year-old Donald Lafferty to repay his mother nearly $87,000.
That restitution wasn’t part of the original sentence Dolan imposed last month when he ordered Lafferty to spend 20 years in prison on a felony conviction of financial exploitation of an elderly person.
Dolan also sentenced Lafferty to consecutive 15-year terms for attempted murder and arson.
Lafferty was convicted in January of hiring a couple to kill his wife by burning his Bloomfield-area home in 2013.
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Information from: Daily American Republic, https://www.darnews.com
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