A judge will decide in the coming weeks how much prison time Evans Landscaping owner Doug Evans should serve, if any, for a minority contracting scheme that a jury convicted him of last year.
A jury convicted Evans and his vice president of operations, Jim Bailey, of six charges related to wire fraud in December after a month-long trial.
Since the U.S. Probation Office recently finished pre-sentence reports in the case, it is likely that U.S. District Court Judge Michael Barrett will set a court hearing soon.
But attorneys are still fighting about the punishment for Evans and Bailey, which may range from probation and no prison time to as much as five years behind bars.
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