PALMER -- Sherry Johnston came to court Friday morning with an entourage -- son Levi, daughter Mercedes, and her new attorney, prominent Anchorage defense lawyer Rex Butler.
Johnston left with a new trial date: May instead of March.
The 42-year-old pleaded not guilty last month to six felony counts of possessing and selling the prescription painkiller OxyContin.
Investigators with the Mat-Su drug unit arrested Johnston in December at her home off Wasilla-Fishhook Road. She sold pills in the Wasilla Target parking lot to informants working with investigators, according to court documents filed by Alaska State Troopers.
With the presidential election over and the national media long gone, no one paid special attention to the group, though Superior Court Judge Eric Smith did ask one of the young men to remove his ball cap.
Butler told Smith that he filed notice Friday morning that he was taking over as Johnston's lawyer, replacing a state-funded attorney from the Office of Public Advocacy. He asked Smith to push back the trial to allow him to get up to speed on the case.
Smith set a new trial date of May 18.
Butler, one of the busiest defense attorneys in Anchorage, has represented high-profile clients and murder defendants including Michael Lawson, the Anchorage man sentenced to 99 years in the killing of 21-year-old Talkeetna resident Bethany Correira, and Josef F. Boehm, the businessman sentenced to 11 years for his role in an underage drug and sex trafficking ring.
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This case will be dismissed even if police have to be paid off. Sarah knows Mrs. Johnson knows Levi is the father of the first child not the second child Bristol had. Now this information would knock Sarah out of Politics. If the wing nuts with the little brain they have left learned Sarah lied about Bristol and her two sons well it would be over. With First Dude guilty of contempt and the AG gone Sarah has big problems.
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