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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Pre-sentencing motions filed by both sides in the perjury case of Timmy Brent Olsen were denied by a federal judge today.
In his ruling from the bench, U-S District Judge J- Thomas Greene said he felt the sentencing range provided in a report by a U-S probation officer was applicable to Olsen's conviction.
The probation department suggested a range of nine to eleven years.
Prosecuting attorneys filed motions asking that the range be increased to as much as 33 years. They say other circumstances in the case, including Olsen's continued attempts to obstruct the investigation into the disappearance of Kiplyn Davis, call for a harsher penalty.
Olsen's attorney was asking for the range to stay at its base level of up to two years.
Greene ruled he will allow Kiplyn Davis's father to speak at the sentencing about how Olsen's lies have affected his family.
Olsen is scheduled to be sentenced on his conviction on 15 counts of perjury next Tuesday.
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