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Attorney Plans Appeal for Mentally Ill Defendant

Man gets up to 40 years for attack on nurse

By Jason Carmel Davis • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS
• August 16, 2010

A man with a history of drug problems and mental illness will serve 10-40 years in prison after beingsentenced in the June 2008 assault of a Livingston County Jail nurse when she came to his aid. Zachory Scott Ray, whom a jury found guilty but mentally ill as charged with assault with intent to commit great bodily harm less than murder for the attack, sobbed as Livingston County Circuit Judge Michael Hatty gave the sentence Friday. The jury in May also convicted Ray of assaulting a Livingston County Sheriff’s Department deputy who came to the nurse’s assistance as well as four counts of  resisting police.

“I gave material in this case three different looks because it was presented to me three different times,” Hatty said. “That nurse had no intentions to harm anyone. Now, she’s disabled.” Ray faced six counts — the assault with intent to commit great bodily harm, assaulting a prison employee (carrying a sentence of one to 40 years), assaulting a police officer (one to 15 years), and three counts of resisting/ obstructing police (one to 15 years). Ray was found (more…)