BATON ROUGE — A judge granted bond to former Baton Rouge Police officer Donald Steele, Jr., who was recently sentenced to six months in prison for malfeasance in office, according to The Advocate .

Steele, 38, was found guilty of groping a Southern University student during a traffic stop. Judge Donald Johnson sentenced him to a year in prison with credit for time served in October .

On Friday, the newspaper reported that Steele's legal team argued for bail and gave notice that they planned to appeal his conviction and sentence, invoking a mandate of state law requiring a post-conviction bail. Steele was consequently released on an $18,000 bond, the same amount as before he was found guilty.

Johnson reportedly ordered Steele's team to file the motion for reconsideration of his sente

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