The criminal sentencing for former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and his top aide has been delayed.
U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson decided during a telephone court hearing Sept. 10 to push back sentencing for Casada and Cade Cothren to Sept. 16, starting at 8:30 a.m. The pair was scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 12.
Casada and Cothren had been convicted earlier this year on more than a dozen counts each of public corruption charges, including fraud, bribery, theft, conspiracy and money laundering.
Richardson on Sept. 9 announced his decision to acquit both men on three of those charges, a rare occurrence, although it did not change the maximum punishment the men could face. The newly announced delay stems from time needed to file updated written arguments and make other tweaks ahead of sentencing after the acquittal ruling.
They face up to 20 years in prison.
Richardson will sentence the men separately, and attorneys and judges had not decided as of the afternoon of Sept. 10 who will go first.
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This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Sentencing for Casada, Cothren delayed after partial acquittal