The Sentence
Shaquanda was tried in the town's juvenile court, convicted by a jury of "assault on a public servant" for shoving Cleda Brownfield (a teacher's assistant at Paris high school in the Paris Independent School District), and sentenced by Lamar County Judge M.C. "Chuck" Superville, Jr. to the Texas Youth Commission for up to seven years, not to exceed her 21st birthday. She was sentenced when she was 14 and served over a year at Ron Jackson unit in Brownwood, Texas.
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