Mikayla Martin Case Results: State v. R.P.
We received a call from a sergeant from the local police department notifying us that R.P. tried to buy a firearm and that he is a felon, so he was going to be charged with Aggravated Forgery. R.P. said that he had no idea he was a felon.
After contacting the State Bureau of Investigation to investigate what Richard’s underlying felony charge was. Mikayla learned that R.P. had pled by information to a Malicious Mischief charge in 1975 for two years of probation.
Malicious Mischief is a charge that no longer existed when this information was added to SBI’s online database in 2003, so SBI mistakenly marked this as a felony conviction.
Mikayla had SBI correct this to a misdemeanor conviction in their system and, as a result, the sergeant informed us that he was no longer pursuing criminal charges against R.P.
