NEWS
Coburn found guilty on all counts Thursday, gets 380 years
Michael Coburn, charged with multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child, was found guilty by a Clay County jury Thursday afternoon. During the punishment phase on Friday, District Judge Jack McGaughey sentenced him to a total of 380 years in prison. He will not be eligible for parole for 190 years.
District Attorney Casey Polhemus said the jurors came back with a guilty verdict on all eight counts: Four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child (under age six) and four counts of indecency with a child.
The Nocona man elected to go to the judge for punishment and that process began Friday morning. The range of punishment on the assault charge is 25-99 years or life, and it is 2-20 years with no probation on the indecency charge. District Judge Jack McGaughey is presiding at this case.
He was originally indicted in June 2014 for continuous sexual assault of a child stemming from allegations he assaulted a female during many months in 2013.
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