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Man jailed for videotaping could be released on bond Thursday
By BRENDA SOMMER
bsommer@leader-news.com
An El Campo business owner sentenced to two years in state prison for secretly videotaping young female employees could be out on bond next week.
In an emotion-filled sentencing hearing Aug. 10 in the 329th District Court chambers at the Wharton County Courthouse, the three victims of secret-camera recordings of female employees while they used the bathroom told how the crimes committed by 52-year-old Donald Ray Luedecke had forever changed their lives. That day Luedecke – owner of All Star Sports n’ Things – was sentenced to spend two years in state jail, the maximum sentence for illegally videotaping.
A certification of right of appeal was filed in District Court by Luedecke’s then-attorney Dennis Morgan on July 6, the day Luedecke pleaded guilty to 26 counts of improper visual recording. The charges came because of videos made of three women, ages 18 and 19, between Feb. 24 and May 6, the date a search warrant was granted within two hours of an initial report made to police by one of the three women.
On Oct. 28, motions for bail pending appeal and to impose community supervision were filed in 329th District Court by Luedecke’s new attorney, Richard Manske.
Because Luedecke’s case has been appealed and because his sentence is for fewer than 10 years, a judge must set bond for Luedecke, Ross Kurtz, assistant district attorney, said.
“The bond would not be forever, but until his appeal is heard,” Kurtz said. “We estimate it would take between 12 and 18 months” for the appeal to be heard.
To read more of this story, pick up a copy of Saturday’s Leader-News.
In an emotion-filled sentencing hearing Aug. 10 in the 329th District Court chambers at the Wharton County Courthouse, the three victims of secret-camera recordings of female employees while they used the bathroom told how the crimes committed by 52-year-old Donald Ray Luedecke had forever changed their lives. That day Luedecke – owner of All Star Sports n’ Things – was sentenced to spend two years in state jail, the maximum sentence for illegally videotaping.
A certification of right of appeal was filed in District Court by Luedecke’s then-attorney Dennis Morgan on July 6, the day Luedecke pleaded guilty to 26 counts of improper visual recording. The charges came because of videos made of three women, ages 18 and 19, between Feb. 24 and May 6, the date a search warrant was granted within two hours of an initial report made to police by one of the three women.
On Oct. 28, motions for bail pending appeal and to impose community supervision were filed in 329th District Court by Luedecke’s new attorney, Richard Manske.
“The bond would not be forever, but until his appeal is heard,” Kurtz said. “We estimate it would take between 12 and 18 months” for the appeal to be heard.
To read more of this story, pick up a copy of Saturday’s Leader-News.
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