Filing indicates possible testimony from Paul at resentencing
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and his wife, Kelley Paul, may testify at the second scheduled sentencing hearing for Rene Boucher.
Boucher, a former neighbor to the Pauls, is set to appear in U.S. District Court on July 27 for a hearing in which he may be resentenced for the crime of assaulting a member of Congress. The case stems from the 2017 incident in which Boucher tackled the Republican legislator as he was doing yard work outside his home in Rivergreen subdivision.
Boucher pleaded guilty to the offense and was sentenced to 30 days in prison, fined $10,000 and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. But that sentence was appealed by Special Prosecutor Bradley Shepard, who argued that Boucher’s punishment did not adequately take into account the extent of Paul’s injuries from the assault, which included multiple fractured ribs and bouts of pneumonia.
Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit vacated the sentence and returned the case to the federal district court in Bowling Green for another sentencing hearing.
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(Bowling Green Daily News)