A LaGrange woman got a reduced sentence Friday after she substituted her original guilty plea for another.

Jody Marie Nordwall, 22, had been sentenced in July to 10 years in prison and five years’ probation for armed robbery.

But after negotiations between assistant district attorney Melissa Himes and defense attorney Suellen Fleming, she was allowed to withdraw the plea and plead guilty to the lesser charge of robbery.

She was sentenced to seven years in prison and five years’ probation

Nordwall said her original plea was entered “under duress” and against the advice of counsel after she had been threatened by her co-defendant at the county jail for agreeing to testify for the prosecution.

Her attorney said Nordwall thought that by entering a guilty plea “she would be removed from the [jail] and out of harm’s way.”

“Ms. Nordwall had always suffered a physical beating while in the jail and reasonably expected to be attacked again,” Fleming said in court papers.

Others sentenced Friday after pleading guilty were:

n Matthew Allen Yarbrough, 26, of LaGrange; three years in prison and seven years’ probation for aggravated assault.

Prosecutors said he put a .32-caliber semiautomatic pistol to a man’s head outside Commotions and pulled the trigger, but the victim tilted his head back and wasn’t hit.

The district attorney’s office dropped another aggravated assault charge that had accused Yarbrough of trying to run over the victim, as well as a woman, in the Commotions parking lot about 1 a.m. on Nov. 18.

n Mario Sanchez Brisco, 29, of LaGrange; six years in prison and four years’ probation for two counts of selling cocaine.

n Kevin Lamar Allen, 24, of LaGrange; three years in prison, two years’ probation and a $750 fine for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and obstruction of officers.

n Kevin Carrara, 52, of Greenville; five years’ probation, a $750 fine and restitution of $7,850 for 14 counts of forgery.

Thefts

n A man in the 300 block of Butler Street reported the theft of a concrete table and concrete chairs valued at $800 from his yard.

n Somebody broke into a car in the 1300 block of Washington Street and disassembled the dash in an unsuccessful bid to steal the CD player.