Former St. Landry Parish School Board member John Miller has been sentenced to ten months of house arrest and two years of probation for trying to sell his vote during the school system's search for a new superintendent last year.
One week after his bribery conviction in a federal court, Quincy Richard has withdrawn his appeal of the earlier district court finding that he was ineligible to serve on the St. Landry Parish School Board.
72-year-old St. Landry Parish School Board member John Miller of Opelousas has pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery in the case involving him, fellow board member 51-year-old Quincy Richard Sr. of Opelousas and former school board superintendent candidate Joseph Cassimere.
St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz says his office is not involved in the probe of the two school board members accused of trying to sell their votes.