Having been spared incarceration years ago and granted probation, a 33-year-old man was shown little mercy this time when he was sentenced for a fatal shooting in New Hope last fall.
Jack Guy of Minneapolis was sentenced Monday in Hennepin County District Court to a nearly eight-year term after pleading guilty to second-degree manslaughter in connection with the Oct. 24 shooting of 23-year-old Carnell Mark Johnson Jr. of Bloomington.
With credit for time in jail after his arrest, Guy is expected to serve close to five years in prison and the balance on supervised release.
The plea agreement between the prosecution and the defense led to the dismissal of second-degree murder and gun possession counts and called for a sentence anywhere from five years to seven years and 11 months. Judge Daniel Moreno imposed the top of that range.
Moreno also denied Guy’s request to delay for one day reporting to prison so he could celebrate with his son on the boy’s sixth birthday on Aug. 14.
Court records in Minnesota show that Guy has been convicted five times for violating a no-contact order and once each for a weapons offense, domestic assault, forgery, illicit drugs, theft, burglary and disorderly conduct.
In April, Hennepin County District Judge Matthew Frank passed on giving Guy a five-year sentence and put him on probation for three years after he pleaded guilty to illegal weapons possession and defying a no-contact order on May 25, 2022.
In explaining the downward departure to the State Sentencing Guidelines Commission, Frank wrote among other things that “Mr. Guy has developed a stable life in the community with a steady job. has advanced at that job [and] is caring for his children.”
