According to representatives with the Hoover Municipal Court, this will be a pretrial hearing.
Booking photo for Carlee Russell. She was charged with false reporting to law enforcement authorities and falsely reporting an incident. This comes after the 26-year-old allegedlyRussell's attorney Emory Anthony and the prosecutors are expected to discuss what will happen moving forward in this case.Russell is accused of lying to Hoover police about being kidnapped and falsely reporting a child was walking alone on the side of Interstate 459 in Hoover.
I think the expectation from the public would be that she has some sort of jail time associated with it. Realistically based on what her past most likely is like, I would imagine there probably won’t be any actual jail time," said Merrell.If that plea is taken probation could be on the table for Russell.
“The vast majority of cases in the criminal system are resolved through some sort of a plea,” said Merrell. "The sentence would likely be 120 days or 180 days but the judge would likely suspend that and put her on probation for either a year or two and require her to go through certain processes. As long as she doesn’t commit any other offenses, once she got cleared of that probationary time she’ll be clear.”She could be found liable for the resources used during her 48-hour search.
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