SANDPOINT — A man charged in a domestic violence incident has been sentenced seven years in prison for an altercation that occurred late last year.

Darius Slaughter, 29, pleaded guilty by Alford plea May 23 to one count of attempted strangulation in front of a child and one count of injury to child. As part of a pretrial settlement agreement, charges of battery, false imprisonment and providing false information to law enforcement were dropped.

Slaughter was sentenced to seven total years in jail — three determinate, four indeterminate — as requested by deputy prosecutor Sarah Hyde. He will get 220 days credit for time served.

Hyde backed up the requested sentence through evidence of Slaughter’s lack of accountability throughout the entire court process.

“He’s created an alternate real

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