HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A hearing for a local man convicted in a stabbing case from last year resulted in him being sentenced Monday to six years in prison.
Judge Tim Chambers denied a departure request and ordered the sentence for Jordon Leshore disagreeing with the defense contention that he played a passive role in the attack on Jeffrey Payne.
LeShore was found guilty of two counts of aggravated battery, aggravated assault, and aggravated burglary for the attack and the judge ran the sentences concurrent to each other, but consecutive to his other sentences in other cases. He’s already serving time for a 2009 case where he was convicted of aggravated burglary and a 2010 case where he was convicted of obstructing the legal process.
LeShore is one of the men who went to Payne’s home back on February 18, 2013 and beat and stabbed him almost to death. He had been beaten, then stabbed 23-times in the attack.
Defense Attorney Sarah Sweet-McKinnon argued that he went there and pushed his brother from the home ending the attack, while the state argued he was involved by punching the victim while his brother was stabbing him. Senior Assistant District Attorney Steve Maxwell argued that he went into the home with “rage” over his mother being struck.
His brother Joseph LeShore was recently sentenced to 8-years, 3-months after he entered pleas in the case. Troy Bell was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for the same crimes. 31-year-old John Cantu entered a plea to conspiracy to commit aggravated battery in front of Judge Tim Chambers and is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday. Desmund Cantu is serving 7-years in prison for his part in this case.
The only one left with his case pending is Sean Arevalo-Mendoza, who is believed to have played a minor role in the attack.