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Fri, Sep 28 2012 08:46:05

Ex-Kennedale teacher gets five years in prison for having sex with students

Former Kennedale High School teacher Brittni Colleps was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty for having multiple sexual encounters with five of her students.

  1. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Colleps being fingerprinted. Says she is without funds to hire appeal lawyer. Judge finds she is indigent. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 16:58:39
  2. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Judge sets appeal bond at $15,000 per case. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 16:54:50
  3. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    She will have to serve a quarter of the sentence before she is eligible for parole. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 16:45:25
  4. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Courtroom silent as verdicts were read. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 16:42:27
  5. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Jurors deliberate less than 3 hours before sentencing Brittni Colleps to 5 years in prison on all 16 counts of improper relations. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 16:41:07
  6. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Jurors assess no fine. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 16:39:47
  7. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Jury's verdict in trial of Brittni Colleps on all 16 counts: 5 years in prison #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 16:39:28
  8. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Jurors deliberated just under three hours before announcing they've reached a verdict. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 16:32:22
  9. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Verdict reached in Brittni Colleps trial. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 16:31:27
  10. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Jury has a question, apparently. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 15:23:42
  11. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Jury just buzzed. Not sure why as of yet. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 15:23:13
  12. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Jury will sentence Colleps on all 16 counts in which she was convicted. Sentences will run concurrently. She is probation eligible #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 14:12:59
  13. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Jury asks to see text messages and actual law pertaining to the case. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 13:47:57
  14. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Jury now deliberating sentence for Kennedale High School teacher convicted of having improper relations with 5 students. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 13:43:52
  15. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Beach": Jury is "moral conscious " of our community. This is not a "minimum case." Asked them to show their moral outrage in their verdicts.
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 13:42:24
  16. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Beach: "Sexually she needed something more and something more and something more until she crossed a very clear line." #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 13:40:08
  17. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Beach: Her repellant sexual behavior itself not illegal but it was not enough for her. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 13:39:37
  18. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Beach: "I ask you to channel that outrage you've been feeling all week into the verdicts you return." #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 13:34:26
  19. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Johnston: Asks jurors to give Colleps any number of years of probation. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 13:32:47
  20. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Johnston: Not case of older teacher with 12yo. "This is a case of a 27-year-old teacher and 18 and 19 years old adults. " #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 13:32:15
  21. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Johnston: Judge can tell her to get any kind of therapy, treatment he determines she needs for rehabilitation. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 13:29:44
  22. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Johnston: Judge has right to add any probation conditions and set any length of probation. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 13:28:48
  23. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Johnston: Says victims don't want jury to send her to prison. #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 13:27:43
  24. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Johnston: Punishment will run concurrently. "Whatever she is sentenced to, that's what she's going to serve." #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 13:27:07
  25. deannaboyd
    Deanna Boyd@deannaboyd
    Johnston: Ask jurors to think of it as one crime. "I am asking you to come up with one number ." #txtrial
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 13:26:03

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