Following considerable mediation in Lyon County Circuit Court, litigation between the Commonwealth and defense of 47-year-old Harold F. Jett concluded with a resolution Friday — in which he pleaded guilty to the murder of his aunt, Mary Dullenty.
Charged with her death — as well as speeding, first-degree fleeing or evading police, first-degree burglary and first-degree strangulation — the Commonwealth recommended he serve all counts concurrent for a total of 35 years and ineligible for probation or shock.
Pursuant to state law, he must serve at least 20 years for the violent offense before being eligible for parole.
A jury trial scheduled for September 16 has been canceled. Official sentencing has been set for 9 AM, November 13.
Jett’s defense team, Rick Lawniczak and Amie Martinez, spent considerable time seeking analysis at the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center, in order to review their client’s mental acuity.
He was originally indicted in December 2021, two months after Dullenty was discovered in her Hilltop Street residence that October, dead of blunt force trauma. Earlier that same day, the Trigg County Sheriff’s Department had responded to a disturbance on the South Road, where Jett was accused of shooting a vehicle during an altercation.
For nearly three years, he had been incarcerated at the Christian County Jail under a $1 million cash bond.
