Photo: Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
An update to the story of a Jupiter man charged with threatening former President Trump and his running mate JD Vance.
We had reported last month that the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office entered Michael Wiseman into a pretrial intervention program that would have kept him out of prison, ultimately expunged the charges from his record and Weisman would have had no issues purchasing a gun in the future.
At the time, Republican Palm Beach County State Attorney candidate Sam Stern told us that Wiseman did not qualify for the program.
"It is an illegal plea. You cannot give a pre-trial diversion on a second degree felony. And even if they could, they should never have done it. But they couldn't have done it."
Turns out that three days after agreeing to put Wiseman in the intervention program, prosecutors filed papers with the judge to reverse that move, claiming the defendant did not meet the criteria because only offenders charged with misdemeanors or felonies of the third degree are eligible.
Stern now calls into question the State Attorney's Office for keeping this fact quiet and it only came out in a newspaper article published yesterday in which the reporter initially wrote Stern's claim that the plea deal was illegal was without merit. After publishing, the article was changed to note that "Prosecutors walked back the plea deal last month."