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Judge rejects reduced sentence petition for violent offender

A local man petitioned the court Wednesday with a plea for a reduction in his sentence after Honorable Judge Steve Gunnell ordered him to serve over four decades in prison.

Charles Lee Woods, accompanied by Attorney Robert J. Sheffield Jr., requested a lighter sentence in the 31st Judicial District Court after he was sentenced to a combined 45 years with the Louisiana Department of Corrections in J…

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