FRANKFORT, Ind. – Clinton County Sheriff Rich Kelly and Jail Matron Ashley Kelly each entered pleas of not guilty today on each of the four individual criminal charges, filed March 4th, during an approximately eight minute long initial hearing in front of Senior Judge Peggy Lohorn in Clinton County Circuit Court.
Judge Lohorn set May 12, 2022, as a pre-trial date with June 14, 2022, as the tentative trial date.
The Kellys each face 1 count each of the following:
- as public servants knowingly or intentionally had a pecuniary interest in or derived a profit from a contract connected with their governmental entity served by the public servant;
- engaged in a violation of the criminal Conflict of Interest statute;
- engaged in a violation of the Criminal Conversion statute (IC 35-43-4-3 (a) by Richard L. Kelly receiving commissary funds through his ownership in Leonne LLC; and
- signed under penalties of perjury statements related to their relationship with each other, in violation of the criminal offense of Perjury
