KINGSTON – A 29-year-old Kingston man was sentenced in Ulster County Court to seven years in state prison for strangulation and seven years for assault, both sentences to serve consecutively for a total of 14 years in prison.
This was not the first domestic incident for which William Knox III was charged, said Senior Assistant District Attorney Nicholas LaStella.
“His prior convictions are violent felony convictions, certainly a propensity to cause violence,” he said. “Off the top of my head I know there is a first felony stalking conviction. I believe there was also a drug sale conviction, that would be a non-violent felony. But there were other misdemeanors that were domestic violence related.”
Knox pled guilty on September 1 to strangulation of his intimate partner and assault on an Ulster County Jail corrections officer.
Knox had been remanded to jail since being charged with strangulation and other domestic violence offenses he committed in February 2022.
Since his incarceration began, he assaulted several corrections officers. Following his September pleas, he was indicted for an additional assault charge against another corrections officer on November 28.
Knox was sentenced by Judge James Farrell on Friday, December 8.
