By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Attorneys this morning set a date of June 8 for the sentencing of former softball coach Todd D. Phelps, convicted last week of rape of a teenage team member.
[1]Todd D. Phelps
Phelps, 52, did not come up from the jail for the brief hearing in Lewis County Superior Court.
The former log truck driver from Pe Ell faces as much as six years in prison after a jury found him guilty of third-degree rape and second-degree sexual misconduct.
The sentencing did not take place right away because the offense is a sex crime necessitating a “pre-trial sentencing investigation” to be conducted by the state Department of Corrections, according to Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead.
Halstead and Deputy Prosecutor Debra Eurich handled the case together. Phelps is represented by Centralia defense attorney Don Blair.
Phelps also has a case pending in Lewis County District Court related to allegedly violating a no contact order regarding the now-17-year-old-year-old girl.
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For background, read “Pe Ell rape trial: Guilty as charged” from Friday April 27, 2012, here [2]