{"id":273461,"date":"2026-08-27T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273461\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:00:09","slug":"pennsylvania-court-denies-new-trial-for-ex-judge-convicted-of-shooting-boyfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273461\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania court denies new trial for ex-judge convicted of shooting boyfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania court denies new trial for ex-judge convicted of shooting boyfriend<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/2f6caa0f-21a7-4e78-a320-96ff759ef914\" aria-label=\"Michael Fuller profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2f6caa0f-21a7-4e78-a320-96ff759ef914_1701826026.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Michael Fuller\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A Pennsylvania Superior Court judge has denied a new trial for former Dauphin County Judge Sonya McKnight, who was convicted of attempted homicide and aggravated assault.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">McKnight was convicted in April 2025 after shooting her former boyfriend, Michael McCoy, in the face while he was asleep.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Her attorney had appealed the conviction, seeking a new trial, but the court upheld her sentence of 13 and a half to 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania court denies new trial for ex-judge convicted of shooting boyfriend DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A Pennsylvania Superior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4862,115018,115019,115020,115016,28,30,29,115017],"class_list":["post-273461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-aggravated-assault","tag-convicted-of-attempted-homicide","tag-denied-new-trial","tag-former-dauphin-county-judge-sonya-mcknight","tag-michael-mccoy","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-superior-court-judge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}