Utah County man sentenced to time-served after ‘new information’ reduces rape case to misdemeanor counts

A Utah County man once accused of drugging an 18-year-old woman at his home, then tying her up and raping her, has been sentenced to about seven months time-served in jail after accepting a plea deal in which felony counts were reduced to misdemeanors.Nicholas Charles Leippe, 42, of West Mountain, was charged earlier this year in 4th District Court with aggravated kidnapping, forcible sodomy and two counts of rape, all first-degree felonies, as well as third-degree felony aggravated assault and