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Former Cal Fire SLO captain changes plea at sentencing hearing

September 28, 2023

James Peter Thomas

By KAREN VELIE

During a sentencing hearing on Wednesday, a former San Luis Obispo County Cal Fire captain withdrew his guilty plea and asked for a jury trial. James Peter Thomas will now face charges he grouped a coworker in 2020.

In May, 59-year-old Thomas pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of sexual battery, which requires him to register as a sex offender for 10 years.

On Wednesday, Thomas told the court he was unaware of the sex registry requirement when he pled no contest.

If found guilty, Thomas faces a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $2,000 fine.


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He should have to forfeit his PERS retirement. Perverts should lose their pensions.


Probably a better deterrent than our penal code.


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I just read the answer to joke of many teenagers of yesteryear: “Do you know what is worst that a tornado?” Six months in jail and a $2000 fine.


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I suspect our local pervert likes the odds of getting at least one juror to vote Not Guilty. He’s going to take his chances and demand a jury trial–even though they have him on audio admitting what he did. He’s wasting our time and our money.


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Not to worry, he will retire at some point and his pension from a broken pension system with be intact, he will live off the taxpayers just fine.


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