Deceptive behavior earns stern warning from judge in NK Circuit Court

A Dispuntanta woman will not receive any active time behind jail bars, but received a stern warning of her deceptive behavior from Judge Thomas B. Hoover during Dec. 9 New Kent Circuit Court proceedings.

Katherine Delores Woodlief, 33, of the 10700 block of Pole Run Road, received a five-year suspended sentence.

Woodlief accepted a plea deal last year and was placed in the first offender’s program in exchange for sentencing being suspended until the conclusion of the program. The defendant failed to complete the program, and charges from the February 2012 offenses returned to court.

While assistant Commonwealth’s attorney Randy Del Rossi recommended a 30-day sentence because of Woodlief’s multiple positive drug tests while enrolled in the program, Hoover took into account the new mother and her three-week old baby. But Hoover also spoke directly to Woodlief when it came to the pain medicine she was prescribed by her doctor.

“I am not impressed with your character,” said the judge. “Here you are, getting over a drug addiction and you are receiving prescribed medication from a doctor, who is trying to do his job honestly by comforting his patients, for something you’re addictive to.”

“Ms. Woodlief, I expect you to be honest with your doctor and tell him about your addiction,” the judge concluded.