Request denied for sentence review.
August 14, 2008 - Uppercase Judge Howard County Circuit Court Judge Richard Bernhardt denied a request by Joseph Samuel Ellis to have his sentence reviewed and possibly modified.
Ellis was sentenced to five years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sexual abuse of a minor, indecent exposure and telephone misuse.
In a motion filed with the Howard County Circuit Court on July 24, Ellis' attorney, Andrew Levy, requested that the court hold a hearing one year after Ellis' conviction to allow Ellis "to make a showing as to his rehabilitation and why and how his sentence should be modified."TT entry for Ellis.
According to the motion, Ellis is currently in group therapy and tutors his fellow inmates who are working toward their GEDs.
At his sentencing, a victim wrote, "Every girl looks forward to her senior year in high school," the victim wrote. "I would rather die than have to relive it."
