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Contact Us UI Homepage Legal Information Search the Argonaut Prosecution declines to change McNally sex crime charge Written by Sam Taylor -Argonaut Friday, 31 March 2006 Latah County Deputy Prosecutor Michelle Evans told District Judge John Stegner in January that she would not lessen the sex-crime charges against a former student, which means he still faces life in prison.

University of Idaho sophomore Ryan McNally, who is no longer at school, was found guilty of one felony count of “forcible sexual penetration with a foreign object” in January.

In a rare move, jurors sent a letter to the judge asking him to show leniency when sentencing McNally.

In the letter, they said they did not believe McNally would re-offend and that he had made a mistake, but was still guilty.

Stegner then met with Evans and asked her to consider pleading the guilty charge down to “sexual abuse of a vulnerable adult,” but after speaking with Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson she decided to keep the original charge, giving several reasons for her decision.

The lesser charge would have meant McNally could be sentenced to 25 years in prison and a $25,000 fi...

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