Found guilty of kidnapping and other charges, Christopher Erik Mann was scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 5, but new evidence delayed the sentencing.
This delay comes after the truck mechanic, who is acting as his own attorney, claimed he’d received a new medical diagnosis earlier in the day.
“There’s been a new development in the case,” Mann told the court early in the hearing. He went on to say he had “been diagnosed with PTSD and was prescribed PTSD medicine.” In addition to kidnapping, Mann was found guilty of coercion, third-degree assault, and fourth-degree weapons misconduct for holding his then-friend, neighbor, and fellow soldier -- Chastin Miller -- at gunpoint on June 25, 2023, outside their North Pole duplex.
While both Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Brent E. Bennett and State Prosecutor Katherine Gonsalves took issue with Mann not properly filing the PTSD diagnosis into evidence, or sharing the information with the state before the sentencing, Bennett ruled he would allow the delay to review the PTSD diagnosis’s potential impact.
“The absence or existence of post-traumatic stress disorder could be very important to the court’s analysis...of at least the prospects of rehabilitation,” Bennett said.“I can’t find that anything that would be presented now, this late in the process, would be relevant,” Gonsalves said.
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