Judge orders state prison in attack on Erie dentist
By Lisa Thompson, Erie Times-News, Pa. | |
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services |
DiSantis said Kienholz, who pleaded guilty but mentally ill to charges of aggravated assault and possessing the instrument of a crime in September, must undergo mental health treatment while in prison.
He said Kienholz was not yet ready to be in an unsupervised setting.
"I think you are getting there," the judge said.
Kienholz had asked DiSantis to sentence him to five years of probation so he could continue to receive treatment in the community as part of his court supervision.
Kienholz's lawyer, Assistant Public Defender
Kienholz said he feels his emotions like others experience broken bones.
"It hurts to feel things," he said.
He said at the time of the attack, he had lost his insurance benefits. In a letter to the dentist read by Krupicz, Kienholz said he needed the dentist to press charges so he could get medical treatment in prison.
The dentist had prescribed an antibiotic for a sore tooth, and Kienholz said he could not afford the medicine.
District Attorney
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