Justice for Greg Gillespie and Clayton Echard and consequences for Laura Owens
Laura Owens enjoys the presumption of innocence under our legal system until she is found guilty in court of law, it is possible she is found not guilty, but I think this is profoundly unlikely.
When she is found guilty, I believe that she should be incarcerated for some period. Honestly, I feel that 2 years in prison would be a just sentence but it is more likely she will get some limited jail time with probation, hopefully up to 10 years plus of probation.
I feel an additional appropriate punishment for Laura is the mandatory restitution for crime victims in Arizona upon criminal conviction. Greg and Clayton are entitled to the cost of her crimes against them including loss wages, lost property, medical expenses, court fees, and attorney fees incurred defending the fraudulent court cases she brought in both cases (under State v. Spears).
Greg can seek restitution for his legal cost for defending himself from her fraudulent lawsuit, a cost likely upwards of $150,000 for both of his lawyers on his case in addition to the cost of any loss of work, loss property, court fees, or anything out of pocket related to her criminal acts. It looks like a fraudulent schemes and artifices convection is needed in his case for Greg's to recover attorney fees, possibly a convection under the Theft by Extortion charge may also constitutes fraud convection also.
Clayton has a civil judgment already, but it may not cover costs from the IAH and DVRO cases, I hope Clayton submits for all his lost work income and court costs, paternity testing, hCG test related to her fraudulent activities. I also hope that the sentence will include her making restitution payments for her current civil judgment she already has incurred from Clayton during this criminal case. A fraud convection is needed for Clayton case also for recovery of additional attorney fees.
I hope the judge sets as a condition of probation or prole that she maintains a job making restitution payments to victims to stay out of jail.
Greg and Clayton are hopefully working with the prosecutor's office victim services program to submit detailed, documented claims of their economic losses, including any applicable attorney fees under State v. Spears.
Clayton and Greg will be making victim impact statements during LO sentencing explaining the damage LO criminal actions did to their family and to themselves. They will likely request the judge impose prison time and impose restitution to cover their economic losses.
In the end of all this LO will have up to 5 to 14 felony convictions, and 3 criminal and civil judgements against her, likely adding up to $350,000 or more, and a lifetime no contact order for her victims. She will be under probation for years and years hopefully making her make payments required for restitution to stay out of jail during probation or parole, in the end, this is what I believe the consequences for two cases of paternity fraud will look like for Laura Owens.
Note, I am not a lawyer, just what I understand will likely happen, more accurately what I hope happens in this case.