The man will not declare a contest to accuse the person who believed he was trans

The prosecutors agreed to leave a position for serious crime and will not look for time in jail for a man who in 2023 led his truck to a person, holding it against a large bar of falls, after shouting on being transgender.

John P. Carr, 59, agreed not to declare any contest to criminal danger, a serious crime, for the attack. As part of a guilty agreement signed on January 31, the prosecutor agreed to leave a second serious crime, not to remain in the scene of an accident.

According to the statement, Carr will receive a five -year suspended sentence, which means that he will not meet additional time in jail. Judicial documents indicate that you will receive credit for spending four days in jail after your arrest, but otherwise it has been on bail throughout the case. A guilty hearing is scheduled for February 26 before the district judge John Parker.

The victim was seriously injured with a fractured pelvis and a sharp wound in her thigh. Emergency responders found her on the ground, with severe pain with “liquid” leaving the mouth, according to loading documents. A GOFUNDME page It was created shortly after the attack raised more than $ 5,000 and said that the victim faced a long road to recovery.

Montana Free Press’s attempts to get to the victim were not successful.

The court documents say that on February 17, 2023, Carr left Cowboys Bar in Great Falls when he asked the victim: “Are you one of those transgender people?” The witnesses told the police that Carr continued to “shout” the victim about being trans before driving his collection, holding her against the building and almost losing another witness who jumped from the road.

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Carr moved away, leaving the victim on the ground. After publishing a car of Carr’s surveillance in FacebookThe police identified him the next morning. When the police arrived, Carr was drawing a dent of his fender with a rope and a tree, and there was blood on the fender, according to the documents. He said he didn’t know he hit anyone.

Carr initially declared himself innocent of two serious crimes. The judicial hearings were postponed repeatedly, and it took almost two years to reach a resolution. The prosecutor in the case, the Criminal County Prosecutor Chief Kory Larsen, blamed the change in the defense lawyers for the duration of the case. Carr was assigned a new public defender in February 2024 due to unspecified conflicts.

Talking to MTFP, Larsen said that the guilt agreement reflects responsibility “for what was the behavior.”

“Based on the way the incident occurred, it seemed like a guy who was a little under the influence, he thought he had it in reverse and that he had it in impulse,” Larsen said.

Criminal danger entails a maximum sentence of 10 years.

Montana’s laws by assault include a sentence enhancement Crime option due to the victim’s race, creed, religion, color, national origin or participation in civil rights or human rights activities. The law does not recognize sexual orientation or gender expression as a reason for an improvement.

Federal prosecutors may consider crimes committed against a person based on their sexual orientation or gender identity as a crime of hate.

Talking with a large multitude of falls in February 2024The American prosecutor of Montana, Jesse Laslovich, said that hate crimes based on sexual orientation had been the highest in the previous five years, in particular the crimes aimed at transgender people.

“We wrap ourselves in this national conversation, and I only tell you that the police, the premises, the State and the federal are in motion to hold people responsible,” Laslovich said at that time.

No federal charges have been filed against Carr from February 4.

This story was originally posted by Montana Free Press in Montanafreepress.org.