Judge Revokes Sadie Murphy’s Deferred Probation, Sentences Her to 5 Years in TDCJ

A Jefferson County judge revoked Sadie Yvonne Murphy’s deferred or unadjudicated probation and sentenced her to five years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after Murphy pleaded true to a probation violation and entered a guilty plea in a related new indictment. The judge followed a plea agreement that disposes both matters with concurrent five-year prison terms.

The judge (identified in the record only as the court) told Murphy the court had previously offered deferred probation but that recent incident reports prompted the state to withdraw that offer. The state’s attorney—citing incident reports accessed through the jail records system Odysee—told the court the reports go back to Murphy’s first incarceration and include fights, violent incidents and at least one recent attempt at self-harm. The prosecutor said some of the…