The state Court of Appeals affirmed a Lewis County man’s 2015 conviction for unlawful imprisonment but ordered the court to resentence him.
Adam Paul Rambur was charged in 2014 with second-degree assault by strangulation, unlawful imprisonment, felony harassment and bail jumping following an alleged assault on a woman in September 2014.
He was later convicted of unlawful imprisonment, bail jumping and fourth-degree assault, and acquitted on the felony harassment charge. He was sentenced to 5 months in prison.
Rambur appealed the unlawful imprisonment conviction, saying the trial court abused its discretion in disallowing hearsay evidence, that his counsel was ineffective, that the prosecution engaged in misconduct and that the court did not adequately assess his financial obligations. The appeals court ruled against all of these assertions.
However, the court ruled Rambur’s offender score was incorrectly calculated, and ordered Lewis County to sentence him again.
