Yuri Ermakov Sentenced
Posted by Webmaster in Coaches, Hall of Shame, High Schools, IllinoisYuri Ermakov, 25, a former assistant track coach at University Laboratory High School in Urbana, Illinois has been sentenced in absentia to a 12-year prison sentence for engaging in a sex act with a student.
Ermakov was convicted at a jury trial in July on a charge of criminal sexual assault, which alleged a sex act with a 15-year-old girl whom he dated between October 2005 and mid-January 2006 and on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for supplying alcohol to two 16-year-old female University High students in February 2006.
Ermakov was present for his July trial however he fled before the jury returned its verdict.
The FBI states that it believes Ermakov is now in Moscow and with no extradition treaty between the United States and Russia there is little hope of returning him to the U.S. to serve his prison sentence.
10/08/08 – Ermakov Seeks Pardon Without Serving Sentence
Yuri Ermakov has petitioned the Illinois Prisoner Review Board to be pardoned from the 12-year prison sentence he received two years ago and of which he had not served a single day.
Ermakov fled the county to Russia while a jury was deliberating his fate. He was convicted of criminal sexual assault for having sex with a 15-year-old girl, and contributing to the delinquency of a child for supplying alcohol to two 16-year-old girls.
Tamara Holder, an attorney who says she has never met her client, argued his pardon request before a four-member panel of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board yesterday in Chicago.
The review board usually makes their confidential recommendations to the governor within weeks of the hearings.
Reference:
Ex-Uni coach seeks pardon without serving sentence (10/08/08)
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DID IT WORK?
A pardon?? On what grounds, that he’s a commie?? Who’s this joker think he is Roman Polanski??