Clayton Kelly (Image source: Twitter)
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Blogger Given 2.5 Years in Prison for Breaking in to Nursing Home to Take Video of Senator’s Ailing Wife
June 15, 2015
CANTON, Miss. (AP) -- A blogger who pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to breaking in to a nursing home and shooting unauthorized video of the ailing wife of a U.S. senator was sentenced Monday to serve more than two years in prison.
Clayton Kelly, the man accused of taking pics of Mrs. Cochran in her nursing home room will appear in court today. pic.twitter.com/ILxazOJZwE
— Malary Pullen (@MPullen_WJTV) June 8, 2015
Twenty-nine-year-old Clayton Kelly of Pearl, Mississippi, shot the video of Sen. Thad Cochran's then-wife in 2014.
On Monday, Mississippi Circuit Judge William Chapman gave Kelly the full five-year maximum sentence, but he'll be in prison for half that time. The rest is on probation.
Images of Rose Cochran, who had dementia, appeared online briefly during a tough Republican primary. Investigators say Kelly was one of several people who conspired to produce the video suggesting Thad Cochran was having an affair.
Cochran's campaign said he wasn't involved in an improper relationship.
Rose Cochran died in December. Thad Cochran last month married a longtime aide.
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