FROM: HOLLEY
CARNRIGHT
DATE: DECEMBER
6, 2019
RE: PRESS
RELEASE – JOSHUA STUART SENTENCE
Today in
Ulster County Court, Joshua Stuart was sentenced on his conviction of Robbery
in the First Degree to 25 years in prison followed by 5 years of post release
supervision.
In addition to
being sentenced for robbery, Stuart received consecutive sentences of ten years
each on two separate residential burglaries which occurred after the Ellenville
Hospital robbery.
Stuart also
received a consecutive sentence of 2 1/3 to 7 years on a conviction of Criminal
Trespass in the first degree, and a sentence of 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison which
will run concurrently to the other
sentences upon his conviction for stealing a car during his crime spree.
In total,
Stuart, age 42, was sentenced to 47 1/3 years in state prison but under NYS Law
the sentences will be capped at 40 years. Stuart also faces separate
consecutive sentences in Federal Court as a result of an armed robbery in
Brooklyn.
The charges stem from a series of violent crimes in the Town of
Wawarsing in September of 2018.
At sentencing, Stuart stated to the Court “that none of these
crimes would have happened if the people at the hospital just gave me what I
needed.
The case was prosecuted by Sr. Assistant District Attorney
Gerard VanLoan and Assistant District Attorney Timothy Lawson. Defendant was represented by Russell
Schindler of the Ulster County Public Defender’s Office.
