Eric Taylor was sentenced in Starke Circuit Court Friday morning.
Taylor was on trial for two days in Starke Circuit Court in August which ended with not guilty verdicts on charges of dealing in methamphetamine and possession of chemical reagents or precursors with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine. The jury was deadlocked on counts of possession of methamphetamine, possession of a syringe, maintaining a common nuisance and possession of paraphernalia.
Taylor was to go to trial on the four counts where the jury was deadlocked, but Taylor pleaded guilty in a plea agreement with the state to a charge of possession of methamphetamine as a Class D felony. Judge Kim Hall accepted the terms of that agreement and Taylor was sentenced to serve 21 months in the Indiana Department of Corrections with no part of the sentence suspended. The other three charges were dismissed.
In a separate case, Taylor pleaded guilty in a plea agreement with the state to charge of possession by a meth offender as a Class D felony. Judge Kim Hall accepted the agreement and sentenced Taylor per the terms of that agreement. Taylor will serve 12 months in the Indiana Department of Corrections with no part of the sentence suspended.
Those sentences will run consecutively to each other. He was given 176 days credit time.
