Joplin man convicted for having firearms, ammunition in house:
Gregory White, the father of Memorial Middle School shooter Thomas White, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for possessing firearms as a convicted felon.
White had convictions of attempted burglary in Florida in 1980 and a meth conviction in California in 1988.
White’s attorney, federal public defender Ann Koszuth, argued for a sentence at the lower end of the range, referring to her client as “a very solid and good family man,” with a good work history and only a distant criminal past.
“This is a family that’s going to need its father back as quickly as possible,” Koszuth told the judge.
The judge said he recognized this was “not the typical case we see here for a felon in possession.”
“On the other hand, the number of guns you had is not just a slight violation,” Dorr said.
Seems like a fair sentence to me.
