Judge Orders Ex-Bishop To Remain Behind Bars
BALTIMORE (WJZ/AP) — A Maryland judge has ordered that a former bishop stay behind bars after she asked for her five-year sentence to be reduced.
Heather Cook appeared before Baltimore Circuit Judge Timothy Doory Monday in hopes he would release the former Episcopal bishop from jail today.
Cook, 62, was sentenced for killed a bicyclist with her vehicle in 2014. She was drunk and texting when she struck Thomas Palmero.
After the judge’s decision, Cook wept and muttered, “I
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