Man sentenced to almost 12 years for violent crimes

A 28-year-old Spokane man pleaded guilty Wednesday to numerous charges stemming from two violent crimes within one week last summer.

Spokane County Superior Court Judge Linda Tompkins sentenced Rory Allen Jamison to 112/3 years in prison as recommended in a plea bargain.

Jamison, also known as Rory Burkenbine, faced a standard range of 103/4 to 141/4 years for his guilty pleas to second-degree kidnapping, six counts of second-degree theft, second-degree assault and second-degree malicious mischief.

Deputy Prosecutor Andi Jakkola agreed to reduce a first-degree kidnapping charge and to drop two counts of second-degree theft in exchange for Jamison’s plea.

In the first incident for which Jamison was convicted, he beat two people with a baseball bat July 31.

The attack sprang from an argument that erupted when Corienna Fleetwood asked an associate of Jamison’s to return the money she paid for a car-door window that didn’t fit.

Jamison threw the window onto Fleetwood’s car and began hitting the car with an aluminum baseball bat. He hit Fleetwood in the back of the head with the bat when she tried to get into her car. Then he attacked Glen Garrison, one of two people who had accompanied Fleetwood, when Garrison came to Fleetwood’s aid.

Garrison suffered a blow to his upper arm and one to top of his head that required 10 staples to close. Both Garrison and Fleetwood were hospitalized with concussions.

In an unrelated incident on Aug. 7, Jamison beat, bound and robbed a man who had known him for 17 years and who considered him a nephew even though they weren’t related. The victim, Daryl Coyle, had allowed Jamison to spend the night in his home when Jamison repeatedly hit him in the head and knocked him down.

Jamison bound, gagged and blindfolded Coyle with duct tape and spent more than three hours rifling through Coyle’s belongings. He returned to Coyle from time to time to beat him and demand personal identification numbers for Coyle’s credit and debit cards. At one point, he put a knife to Coyle’s side and threatened to stab him.

About a half-hour after Jamison left, Coyle managed to hop to a neighbor’s house for help.