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Sentencing date set in New Year’s fatal accident

PINEDALE (WNE) — The Jackson woman who pleaded guilty on May 27 to causing the New Year’s Day aggravated vehicular homicide of a Pinedale man will be sentenced on Thursday, Aug. 19, in 9th District Court. 

Jade S. Jewkes changed her earlier “not guilty” pleas made at her March 25 arraignment without forging a plea agreement between her attorney and Sublette County Attorney Mike Crosson. This is called a “cold plea,” leaving the prosecution and defense to argue their respective, recommended sentences to 9th District Judge Marv...