TORRINGTON – Former Municipal judge and local attorney Greg Knudsen’s counsel has entered a Request For Hearing on Change of Plea and a Binding Plea Agreement with the District Court of the Eighth Judicial District. The plea agreement was signed by Assistant District Attorney Kevin Taheri, Defense Attorney P. Craig Silva and Knudsen. 

According to the agreement, Knudsen will plead no contest to two counts of Third Degree Sexual Assault and three counts of Stalking. The agreement continues, “The State will dismiss (the) remaining counts…” The remaining counts to be dismissed are two counts of Stalking, one count of unlawful contact, one count of Third Degree Sexual Assault and one count of Burglary.

Should the court accept the agreement, Knudsen could be sentenced “to a suspended penitentiary sentence of 48 months or four years to 72 months or six years on the felony Counts.” The plea agreement continues, “There will be a six month suspended sentence as to each remaining misdemeanor Counts. The felony and misdemeanor sentences shall run concurrently.”

Also stated in the agreement, Knudsen would also be placed on three years supervised probation for each count to run concurrently. Defendant shall receive six months supervised probation as to each count, to run concurrently. All probation shall run concurrently. 

As of publication, the court has not answered on the request for a hearing to change Knudsen’s plea.

Stay tuned to the Torrington Telegram for more information.