ASHVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Former Ashville High School teacher Donnie McKay has pleaded guilty to witness intimidation and juror intimidation.
McKay initially pleaded not guilty to the two charges, but he changed his plea to guilty Monday before St. Clair County Circuit Court Judge Charles Robinson.
Robinson sentenced the 36-year-old McKay to serve one year, and one day for each charge. The sentences are to run concurrently with a 15-year sentence he is now serving in state prison for the 2005 rape and sodomy of a 15-year-old female Ashville High School student.
Prosecutors say McKay tried to influence testimony in his sentencing hearing by intimidating a potential witness and in September 2006 threatened a juror who had helped convict him a month earlier.
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