Jail assault nets month sentence

Amanda Tobin, 24, Lewiston, was sentenced Tuesday, Dec. 31, to a month in jail after she entered a plea of guilty to assaulting a corrections officer in the Whitman County Jail in October of 2012.

Tobin had been sought after she failed to appear for trial last June. She had been released on $10,000 bail after she initially failed to appear for a pre-trail hearing last January.

Tobin appeared in court March 20 and entered a not guilty plea to the charge of custodial assault. Her trial date on the charge had been set for June 17.

The deputies’ report on the charge alleged Tobin assaulted a jaile...