After a two-week delay, sentencing is scheduled today for 26-year-old Torrence Deonta Lyde, a Cleveland, Ohio man convicted of possession with intent to deliver heroin, conspiracy, simple possession, and reckless endangerment, and resisting arrest. He was one of five people arrested in an August 2013 raid at a home on Poplar Avenue in Indiana, where he blocked a bathroom door and attempted to flush drugs down the toilet.
Last May, Judge William Martin ordered Lyde to serve three to twelve years in prison for possession with intent to deliver, a concurrent term of three to twelve years for reckless endangerment, and consecutive terms of one to two years for conspiracy to deliver 1.8 grams of heroin, and six months to one year resisting arrest.
After a series of appeals, it was determined that the state’s mandatory minimum sentence was illegal, prompting today’s re-sentencing, but Lyde has now filed an appeal of his case before State Superior Court. The court is scheduled to receive the original case records on April 24th.
