By Jennifer Mann
STL Today
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — A corrections officer who lied about his rounds the day two inmates staged an escape from the St. Louis Justice Center worked out a deal with prosecutors that landed him probation on a series of misdemeanor charges.
Mori Farrell, 52, had faced nine felonies of forgery and permitting escape, plus one misdemeanor charge of making a false report. He could have faced five to seven years in prison on each of those more serious counts.
But in exchange for his guilty plea last week, prosecutors instead issued eight misdemeanor counts of making a false report, a charge that carries a maximum of six months in prison. St. Louis Circuit Judge Margaret Neill ordered a six-month suspended execution of sentence, which Farrell will serve on unsupervised probation.
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