MONROE - A Monroe woman convicted of stabbing her husband has withdrawn motions to change her plea and to ask the judge to reconsider his sentencing decision.
Shannon Golackson, 29, is to begin her one-year jail sentence May 3. She is eligible for Huber release from jail to care for her young daughter, but it is up to the Green County Sheriff's Department whether she can live at home and serve her sentence on electronic monitoring.
Golackson decided not to move forward with the motions to fight the sentence because she doesn't want to "prolong" matters, said her attorney Gregory Knoke at a hearing Tuesday, April 16.
Knoke filed the motions in the week after her sentencing in January. She pleaded no contest to misdemeanor counts of battery and endangering safety with a dangerous weapon. The court granted her a three-year deferred prosecution on felony counts of false imprisonment and intimidation of a victim.
The charges stem from an incident in December 2011. During an argument with her husband, she grabbed a steak knife off the kitchen counter and threw it at him, then grabbed another and stabbed him in the chest, puncturing his lung.
According to testimony in court, she left him bleeding on the floor overnight and only took him to a hospital the next day after he agreed to lie and say he accidentally stabbed himself while cutting an apple.
The couple have since legally separated. They're successfully working together to coparent their daughter, Knoke said.
A therapist who's been counseling Golackson, Peter Kelly, told the judge he's impressed with her progress.
"She's a very thoughtful and engaged person in our sessions," he said.
Judge Thomas Vale granted Knoke's request that the start of her jail sentence be postponed until the next weekend her husband has their daughter. The hearing ended with him wishing her luck.
Shannon Golackson, 29, is to begin her one-year jail sentence May 3. She is eligible for Huber release from jail to care for her young daughter, but it is up to the Green County Sheriff's Department whether she can live at home and serve her sentence on electronic monitoring.
Golackson decided not to move forward with the motions to fight the sentence because she doesn't want to "prolong" matters, said her attorney Gregory Knoke at a hearing Tuesday, April 16.
Knoke filed the motions in the week after her sentencing in January. She pleaded no contest to misdemeanor counts of battery and endangering safety with a dangerous weapon. The court granted her a three-year deferred prosecution on felony counts of false imprisonment and intimidation of a victim.
The charges stem from an incident in December 2011. During an argument with her husband, she grabbed a steak knife off the kitchen counter and threw it at him, then grabbed another and stabbed him in the chest, puncturing his lung.
According to testimony in court, she left him bleeding on the floor overnight and only took him to a hospital the next day after he agreed to lie and say he accidentally stabbed himself while cutting an apple.
The couple have since legally separated. They're successfully working together to coparent their daughter, Knoke said.
A therapist who's been counseling Golackson, Peter Kelly, told the judge he's impressed with her progress.
"She's a very thoughtful and engaged person in our sessions," he said.
Judge Thomas Vale granted Knoke's request that the start of her jail sentence be postponed until the next weekend her husband has their daughter. The hearing ended with him wishing her luck.