Status Hearing Held for Convicted Felon

A status conference in Fourth Judicial District Court in Sheridan was held Tuesday on a petition to revoke the probation for a woman who was sentenced to prison in 2011 for two counts of felony aggravated DUI. Sheridan Media’s Ron Richter has the details.

An adjudication hearing will be set in the near future for Lydia Morrison to determine whether or not she violated terms of her probation. A petition to revoke Morrison’s probation was filed by the State in June of 2021 for failure to pay restitution and later modified to include a pending criminal case in Montana. Morrison is scheduled for trial in Yellowstone County, Montana on March 7. The alleged crime that Morrison has been charged with was not disclosed at Tuesday’s hearing, but it is a felony and involves a firearm. District Court Judge John Fenn did not set a date for the adjudication hearing, but said one will be scheduled soon, and the hearing would most likely take place in late March or early April, after the pending case in Montana has been resolved. Fenn will not be presiding over the adjudication hearing, as he was appointed to the Wyoming Supreme Court by Governor Mark Gordon on December 2 and will take his seat on the Supreme Court bench on Monday, January 17.

According to court documents, Morrison, in January of 2010, was arrested in Sheridan County and charged with two counts of felony aggravated assault and battery and two counts of felony aggravated DUI. The incident that brought about the charges occurred just outside of Parkman, where Morrison while under the influence of alcohol, knowingly struck two individuals with her vehicle while they were walking along the roadside. Morrison was traveling at an estimated speed of 55 mph, and had been involved in a confrontation with the victims at the bar in Parkman shortly before the incident. Morrison, in February of 2011,  was sentenced to 5 to 8 years in prison and five years of supervised probation upon her release from prison. Morrison completed her prison term in 2016 and began her five year probation term at that time. At a hearing in August, she denied the charge that she violated terms of her probation.