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Judge will allow Cortnee Brantley to surrender voluntarily

 
A federal prosecutor had sought to have Cortnee Brantley taken into custody.
A federal prosecutor had sought to have Cortnee Brantley taken into custody.
Published Dec. 30, 2015

TAMPA — A judge has agreed to allow Cortnee Brantley to surrender voluntarily Monday to begin serving a one-year prison sentence for her conduct after the roadside killing of two Tampa police officers by former boyfriend Dontae Morris.

U.S. District Judge James S. Moody Jr. canceled a Jan. 7 hearing sought by a prosecutor who wanted Brantley taken into custody, given that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals had upheld her conviction.

Brantley, 27, was convicted in 2013 of the obscure federal crime of misprision of a felony. A jury decided she concealed, after the 2010 shootings of Officers Jeffrey Kocab and David Curtis, that Morris was a felon with a gun. Attorney Grady Irvin said he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review her case.

Morris is on death row for killing the officers and another man.