Two trials ahead for IM defendant
Not guilty verdict in sex registry case
IRON MOUNTAIN — An Iron Mountain man was found not guilty in a jury trial last week of a felony charge of failing to comply with the Sex Offender Registration Act, but he still awaits two trials later this year on unrelated charges.
Damion Antonique-Don-Tay Sinclair, 41, will go to trial July 17 and 18 in Dickinson County Circuit Court on felony charges of possession of methamphetamine and possession of heroin as a habitual offender-fourth.
He then will return to court for a trial Aug. 22 through 24 on a felony charge of bribing, intimidating, or interfering with a witness as a habitual offender-fourth.
The habitual offender status in each case increases the maximum penalties to life in prison.
Sinclair was sentenced to jail time in March in yet another case, in which a jury found him guilty of misdemeanor assault and battery for beating a woman in 2017. The jury acquitted him of felony assault and a felony interfering with electronic communications charge.
But the victim in that case said Sinclair contacted her over the phone from the Dickinson County Jail on multiple occasions to tell her she had a right to not testify against him and, if convicted, he could go to prison for years. Her allegations led to the interfering with a witness charge.
Nikki Younk can be reached at nyounk@ironmountaindailynews.com or 906-774-2772, ext. 41.