{"id":5873,"date":"2011-04-12T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T23:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5873"},"modified":"2011-04-12T17:55:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T00:55:31","slug":"news-brief-man-pleads-guilty-in-frost-road-trailer-park-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5873","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Man pleads guilty in Frost Road Trailer Park murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; The Winlock man accused of fatally shooting a trailer park neighbor pleaded guilty and was sentenced today to 16 years in prison.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3144\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.1105.mug_.richard.roth_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3144\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3144\" title=\"Richard J. F. Roth mug\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.1105.mug_.richard.roth_2.jpg\" alt=\"2010.1105.mug.richard.roth_2\" width=\"150\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard J. F. Roth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Richard Joseph Frank Roth, 65, was charged in the Nov. 4 death of 64-year-old Jackie Marie Lawyer in the Frost Road Trailer Park.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said in charging documents Roth retrieved a handgun from his property and confronted Lawyer near the trailer park mailboxes after an argument between the two about him &#8220;snitching&#8221; on her for her dumping wood stove ashes in the woods. Lawyer died from a gunshot wound to her chin and neck.<\/p>\n<p>Roth was arrested that day and charged with first-degree murder. His trial had been scheduled for June.<\/p>\n<p>Today, in front to Lewis County Superior Court Judge Nelson Hunt, Roth pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, which included a firearm enhancement that adds a mandatory five years to his sentence, according to Lewis County Prosecutor Jonathan Meyer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4900\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2011.0210.Jackie.lawyer.trim_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4900\" title=\"Jackie Marie Lawyer\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2011.0210.Jackie.lawyer.trim_3.jpg\" alt=\"2011.0210.Jackie.lawyer.trim_3\" width=\"160\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Marie Lawyer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The reason for the plea agreement: &#8220;Given his age, he will not, probably not live to be released,&#8221; Meyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Roth was represented by court-appointed attorney Mike Underwood.<br \/>\n\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Read background on the November shooting<a title=\"&quot;Slain woman previously managed Winlock trailer park where she died&quot; from Friday Nov. 2, 2010\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3141\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; The Winlock man accused of fatally shooting a trailer park neighbor pleaded guilty and was sentenced today to 16 years in prison. Richard Joseph Frank Roth, 65, was charged in the Nov. 4 death of 64-year-old Jackie Marie Lawyer in the Frost Road Trailer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-5873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5876,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}