
KORFF SENTENCED FOR ATTEMPTED ASSAULT, FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM
TODAY, KURTIS KERN KORFF RECIEVED HIS SENTENCE FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT IN A FEBRUARY, 2006 INCIDENT IN O'BRIEN.
KORFF WAS RECENTLY CONVICTED OF ATTEMPTED ASSAULT, BUT ACQUITTED OF AN ATTEMPTED AGGRAVATED MURDER CHARGE.
HE HAD ALSO PLEAD GUILTY TO A CHARGE OF FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM PRIOR TO STANDING TRIAL ON THE OTHER CHARGES.
KORFF RECEIVED THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF 40 MONTHS IN PRISON AND THREE YEARS OF POST-PRISON SUPERVISION. HE HAS ALREADY SPENT THE LAST TWO YEARS IN PRISON, AND WILL GET CREDIT FOR THAT TIME.
IT WAS ALLEGED THAT KORFF HAD RRIED TO RUN DOWN AND KILL JOSEPHINE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTY JIM GEIGER AFTER HE FELL IN FRONT OF A CAR DRIVEN BY KORFF.
GEIGER THEN FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS AT THE CAR AND STRUCK KORFF IN THE HEAD.
Posted on 3/13/08 by Scott Jorgensen
Driver who ran down Ore. deputy with car convicted
08:38 AM PST on Thursday, March 6, 2008
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A driver accused of trying to run down a Josephine County deputy two years ago has been convicted of attempted assault.
But jurors found Kurtis K. Korff not guilty of attempted murder.
Korff was at the wheel of a car headed toward Deputy Jim Geiger, who had responded to a report of a robbery. Geiger stumbled in front of the car, but came up firing and shot the 41-year-old Cave Junction man in the side of the face.
Korff's sentencing date had not been set Wednesday.