Paycheck Settles in W. Virginia for Life After Prison
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Country music singer Johnny Paycheck said today he plans to begin a new life in West Virginia after spending two years in an Ohio prison.
“I’ve made my home in West Virginia now in Craigsville,” Paycheck said during a visit to the statehouse. “I’m moving all my business here around the Huntington area.”
Paycheck entered prison in 1989 after being convicted of aggravated assault and tampering with evidence in the shooting of a man in a Hillsboro, Ohio, bar in December, 1985.
He was sentenced to seven to 9 1/2 years at the medium-security Madison Correctional Institution but had his sentence commuted by Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste. He was released from prison earlier this month.
Celeste stipulated that Paycheck, whose real name is Donald Eugene Lytle, serve 200 hours of community service and remain “alcohol-free.”
Paycheck, who visited the West Virginia Senate as a guest of state Sen. Homer Heck, refused to discuss his prison sentence.
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