One person sentenced on felony charge

One person was sentenced on a felony charge in Southeast District Court in Jamestown.

Rodney J. Ireland, 23, Sex Offender Unit at North Dakota State Hospital, pleaded guilty to gross sexual imposition, a Class A felony.

Ireland was accused of engaging in a sexual act with a person incapable of understanding the nature of his conduct.

Judge John T. Paulson sentenced him to one year and one day in the Department of Corrections, suspended. Ireland is to submit a DNA sample, register as a sex offender and not possess or own firearms. He will be on five years supervised probation when he is discharged from the hospital.

Paulson ordered Ireland to pay a $300 indigent recoupment, $400 criminal administration fee, $25 indigent defense application fee, $100 defense/facility administration fee and $25 victim-witness fee.

A Class A felony is punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

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