Former Alabama Rep. Will Dismukes will not go to prison for his theft of property conviction.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Former Alabama Rep. Will Dismukes was sentenced Monday and will not go to prison for his theft of property conviction.
Montgomery County Circuit Judge Brooke Reid sentenced Dismukes to 22 years, but spilt that to five years in community corrections. After that, the remaining 15 years will be suspended, and he’ll spend two years on probation. That means he got no prison time. Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl Bailey said he respects Reid’s decision, but believes Dismukes should have received jail time because “this was the first time in history that a Montgomery jury found an aggravator in a theft case.” He had been seeking prison time for the former lawmaker following the conviction.
“This was a crime that deserved prison time. Mr. Dismukes abused his position to repeatedly steal thousands of dollars and enrich himself at the expense of others. He betrayed his employer’s, customers’, and the public’s trust,” Bailey said in a statement.“Most people charged with theft of property first, usually when they have no priors don’t serve any real jail time. And so in this case, state of Alabama was seeking prison time for him.
“It’s not a good message. Obviously, when people steal this kind of money and then don’t admit their responsibility for it and try to hide it and cause a company to almost go out of business. And you’ve got to keep in mind too that he was doing this the whole time that his boss was going through cancer treatments. That’s an egregious part of this that a lot of people don’t know,” Bailey said.He represented District 88 as a Republican in the Alabama House from 2018-2022.Copyright 2023 WSFA.
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