Former Idaho legislator asks to delay sentencing for rape charge – Idaho Capital Sun

Former state Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger, R-Lewiston, has requested that his sentencing for a felony rape cost scheduled on July 28 be delayed pending his request for a brand new trial and different motions earlier than the courtroom.

Von Ehlinger’s legal professional, Jon Cox, filed the movement to delay sentencing on Monday.

“This movement relies on the truth that protection counsel has a number of motions pending on this matter. The defendant respectfully requests that the sentencing listening to be set on future date pending the result of those motions,” Cox wrote.

A jury discovered von Ehlinger responsible of rape on the finish of April, and never responsible on a cost of forcible penetration with a overseas object. The costs have been associated to an evening in March 2021 when von Ehlinger, then 39, took a 19-year-old legislative intern to dinner, then again to his house, the place the previous intern mentioned he pressured her to carry out oral intercourse and inserted his fingers inside her with out her consent. Beneath Idaho Code, he faces between one yr and life in jail for the crime.

Von Ehlinger filed a movement searching for a brand new trial or acquittal two weeks after the decision, and likewise requested a jury transcript. In keeping with the Idaho Statesman, von Ehlinger mentioned he couldn’t afford to pay for the transcript and requested Ada County to choose up the tab, which is estimated to be $2,773.

Cox, mentioned within the movement for a brand new trial {that a} transcript of the four-day trial would present proof was inadequate to maintain a conviction, that there was error relating to statutory and constitutional grounds through the trial, and that the decision was opposite to the regulation or proof.

Fourth District Decide Michael Reardon scheduled a listening to on the movement to delay sentencing for 9 a.m. July 25.