By Shannon McFarlin WENK/WTPR News Director
Paris, Tenn.—Two people from the Memphis area pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of assault and civil rights intimidation and were sentenced Friday in Henry County Circuit Court.
The pair, Dallas Trent Hofmann, age 30 of Memphis, and Eleanor Pitts, age 30 of Cordova, were sentenced to 11 months and 29 days each in the Henry County Jail on the misdemeanor civil rights intimidation charges and 11 months and 29 days in jail each on the assault charges.
The two originally had been charged with felony civil rights intimidation, but the charges were reduced upon a plea agreement.
The sentences will be served concurrently, with 10 days to be served in jail and the remaining served on probation.
They were charged following an incident in which the pair assaulted James Hart, age 73, of Buchanan as he stood on the corner of Tyson and Mineral Wells Avenues brandishing a sign. Hart is a perennial candidate for state and local offices and routinely stands on street corners in Paris, Camden and Dover holding signs with such messages as “Equal Rights For Whites”.
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