Former St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain will be sentenced on January 18th after being convicted Monday night on eight sex crime charges involving juveniles. Given Strain still faces a federal trial on separate charges, how long is the former sheriff expected to remain behind bars?
“He’s going to be looking at serving a life sentence, whatever he gets in federal court it doesn’t much matter, whether it is a federal judge giving him a concurrent or a consecutive federal sentence, if he is found guilty or he pleads guilty, because he is going to end up dying in jail,” Loyola Law Professor Dane Ciolino told WWL’s Tommy Tucker.
Given Strain faces federal charges, could he potentially parlay that into avoiding spending the rest of his life at a state jail? Probably not.
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“He’ll probably wind up serving out any state and federal sentence at a state penitentiary like Angola, or another one in the state because his first conviction was in state court,” said Ciolino.
Strain was transferred to Plaquemines Parish jail Monday night.