Despite calls from the community to get it right this time, Judge Ed Rubin stood his ground during Thursday morning’s re-sentencing of Seth Fontenot.
Unlike his first sentence of three years with everything but 13 months suspended, Rubin used Thursday’s hearing to double-down, issuing a straight 13-month sentence with no time suspended.
For prosecutors, who still disagree with Rubin’s sentence, the next step will be awaiting a ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeal on a writ calling Rubin’s sentence illegal. Lead prosecutor on the case, Assistant District Attorney J.N. Prather, has argued that based on the fact that Fontenot used a gun in the shooting death of teen Austin Rivault, his sentence should have been at least 10 years.
For now, however, it looks like Fontenot, with good-time credit, will spend less than a year in jail.