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HOUGHTON -- A Houghton County Sheriff's Deputy arrested by a detective
from the Michigan State Police Calumet Post in May on a domestic
violence charge and three charges of first degree criminal sexual
assault pleaded no contest to the domestic violence charge Thursday in
97th District Court in Houghton.
Jeffery Stromer, 46, of Laurium, made the plea to Baraga County
Probate Judge Timothy Brennan, who was presiding in place of Houghton
District Court Judge Phillip Kukkonen to avoid any conflict of
interest since Stromer is a Houghton County deputy.
Baraga County Prosecuting Attorney Joseph O'Leary, who also presided
to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest, said a plea agreement
had been reached with Stromer and his attorney, Frank Stupak. With the
plea, the three charges of criminal sexual conduct were dropped.
"I have also agreed that I will not oppose a delay of sentence,"
O'Leary said.
Brennan then asked Stromer if he understood that the domestic violence
charge means without intent to commit murder or great bodily harm. He
said he may not delay sentence in which case Stromer would not be able
to withdraw his plea.
Brennan asked Stromer, also, if he understood that a no contest plea
isn't an admission of guilt, but is treated as such for the purposes
of sentencing. Stromer said he understood all the points.
Brennan said he wanted a pre-sentencing investigation of the case, and
will try to get an investigator from outside the Houghton County area.
He set 3 p.m. Aug. 2 for the sentencing of Stromer and continued the
$25,000 cash bond, which was posted.
A condition of the bond is that Stromer can't have in-person contact
with the victim.
O'Leary said the maximum penalty for the domestic violence charge is
one year in jail and/or $1,000.
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Former Sheriff's Deputy Gets Probation
WLUCTV6 Houghton
August 2, 2007
http://www.wluctv6.com/Global/story.asp?S=6879283
A former deputy with the Houghton County Sheriff's Department on
Monday was sentenced to 6-24 months of probation for aggravated
domestic assault. Forty-six-year-old Jeffery Stromer was arrested in
May for domestic and sexual assault and was convicted of a misdemeanor
last month.Three felony charges were dropped as part of a plea
bargain. Stromer also lost his job at the Sheriff's Department."I'm
sure you'll never see him in this courtroom again," said his attorney,
Frank Stupak. "And I'm sure he will prove to his family and to this
community that justice for him is a term of probation with a delayed
sentence."Special Judge Tim Brennan handed down the sentence of
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