Meehan Sentenced to 20 Years in Kentucky

Twenty years is the judgment on the jury's verdict. She never took the stand, and the state still proved the assault and the witness counts with a 911 call, the officers, and the jail calls. A missing witness is a defense point, not a rule that the case had to be thrown out.

A Kenton County judge sentenced Brandon Meehan, 46, to 20 years in prison. A jury in September convicted him of second-degree assault, tampering with a witness, and intimidating a participant in the legal process, and recommended that term. Jurors deliberated about five minutes.

The assault was Sept. 1, 2025, in a Dollar General parking lot in Covington. He struck his wife in the head with a cell phone. She ran into a Family Dollar and hid until officers arrived. He left and was arrested when he came back.

From jail he called her hundreds of times, telling her to change her story, to say she had lied, and to avoid a subpoena. When she stopped answering, he had other people contact her. She was subpoenaed and did not testify. The jury heard the 911 call and the jail calls.

All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.