![]() This was the second time Wince was tried. “I think there was evidentiary support that this was an accidental burn,” he said.“A bottom of the guideline sentence will serve all the interests of sentencing."įifelski said there was also character testimony at the trial that the judge should consider. The outburst followed arguments by both the defense and the prosecution about sentencing guidelines, the scoring of which could have affected Wince's prison time.Ĭourtesy of the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office James Fifelski, Wince's attorney, asked O'Brien to sentence his client at the bottom of the guidelines. Sentencing had to be resumed about three hours later. Wince was convicted by a jury of torture, first-degree child abuse and resisting arrest.Īs O'Brien reaches the sentence for the child abuse count, a woman is heard crying in the court and Wince behind struggling with the deputies, who hauled the screaming man out of the courtroom. The outburst started soon after O'Brien read off the stiffest sentence, 380 months to 65 years for one count of torture. ![]() Family and friends of Wince also shrieked and openly wept in court as Judge Darlene O'Brien read off the sentencing. Wince had to be restrained by sheriff deputies behind the lectern as he lunged at Hatlem, sitting at the prosecutor's table a few feet away. What are you all prosecuting me for? This ain’t right!”Ī obtained a video of the sentencing via a request at the Washtenaw County Trial Court. "What do you want to prosecute me for?” Harvey Wince yelled at Assistant Washtenaw County Prosecutor Blake Hatlem April 29. ![]() The 22-year-old Superior Township man who will spend 31 to 65 years in prison for putting a child in a scalding bath asked prosecutors why they blamed him in an emotionally charged outburst at his sentencing. ![]()
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