John Colvin, of Rainbow, Ala., who wrongfully claimed he was a licensed contractor in LA, admitted to taking between $39,400 and $63,500, mostly from elderly victims, and was sentenced by Criminal District Court Judge Darryl Derbigny to sixty years in prison in 2010.
The sentence withstood a challenge from the Louisiana Supreme Court after an appeals court overturned the original sentence because Colvin had no criminal record.
The Supreme Court said Colvin engaged in “a pattern of conduct that clearly reflected more than business ineptitude and was fraudulent from the outset.” Judge Derbigny said he would reconsider the sentence if Colvin and prosecutors could make a deal to help the victims. ##
(Photo credit: nola-John Colvin)
