A Florida woman is expected to plead guilty to threatening a man whose son was killed in the 2012 mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut, according to her attorney.
The public defender for 57-year-old Lucy Richards says the case will be resolved in a guilty plea, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
Richards failed to appear at a March 29th plea hearing and was later arrested at her Tampa-area home. She phoned her attorney’s office that morning and said she was not coming to court that day and later said she had changed her mind and wanted to go to trial.
Richards was arrested a few days later in a hospital near her home in Brandon, near Tampa. She has been jailed for nearly two months and has admitted she violated the terms of her pre-trial release on bond when she decided not to show up for the court hearing.
Under the previous agreement, Richards was to plead guilty to a charge of interstate transmission of a threat to injure for threatening Palm Beach County man Lenny Pozner, father of 6-year-old Noah Pozner, who died in the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
Prosecutors say Richards told them the shooting was a hoax. Terms of a new plea agreement have not been made public.