April 2008 - Appeal denied by 2nd Court of Appeals
May 1, 2007 - Adrian Sims, 29, a substitute at Lee Junior High, was sentenced to 10 16 years after having pleaded guilty last year to having sex with a student. [See sentencing information from appellate case.]
He was sentenced on one count of carnal knowledge of a juvenile and subsequently pleaded guilty to molestation of a juvenile for a February incident that reportedly took place while he was on bond.
Monroe police first arrested Sims in August after learning of the pregnancy of a 13-year-old student at Lee Junior High, where Sims once worked as a substitute teacher. He was arrested on seven counts of molestation of a juvenile but pleaded guilty in October to the single count of carnal knowledge.The judge said he wanted the stiff sentence to serve as a warning to authority figures that prey on students.
Sims was free on bail pending sentencing when the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office arrested him in February for the forcible rape of a 15-year-old family friend.
APPEAL DENIED April 30, 2008 - The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals denied Sim's appeal for a sentence reduction, ruling that the 16-year sentence was not excessive and the guilty plea was free and voluntary.
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The case is STATE OF LOUISIANA versus ADRIAN K. SIMS. The decision can be found here. PDF
Original sentencing was, as stated in the opinion: "The defendant was sentenced to serve the maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment at hard labor on the conviction for carnal knowledge of a juvenile with credit for time served.
On the molestation of juvenile conviction he also received the maximum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment at hard labor, with the first four years of the sentence to be served concurrently with the last four years of the sentence imposed on the carnal knowledge of a juvenile conviction, and the remaining six years to be served consecutively."
