A judge rejected a former Vancouver defense attorney’s request to serve her 10-day jail sentence for forgery and identity theft only on weekends

A judge issued a written ruling Friday that denied Josephine Townsend’s request for so-called compartmentalized jail time. Lewis County Superior Court Judge Joely Yeager also denied her request to count her time spent hospitalized as credit for time served. Townsend failed to report Sept. 5 to the Clark County Jail for her sentence due to a medical emergency.

She has until 5 p.m. Nov. 7 to report to the Clark County Jail.

Townsend, 65, altered documents related to a civil protection order against her former client, Travon Santiago. She copied Clark County Superior Court Judge Suzan Clark’s signature from a previous order to a civil protection

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