A Dubuque man convicted of crashing his car into his girlfriend after an argument was sentenced Monday to seven years and 11 months in prison, despite the woman’s pleas for leniency. 36 year old Jeremias Woodland was sentenced in Iowa District Court of Dubuque County. Woodland entered an Alford plea in September to charges of domestic assault with a dangerous weapon, serious injury by vehicle and operating while intoxicated. Such a plea is not an admission of guilt, but the defendant acknowledges that sufficient evidence for a conviction exists. Woodland also pleaded guilty to violating his probation in a 2018 case in which he assaulted the same woman. 27 year old Koria Wells of Dubuque, asked for leniency at Woodland’s sentencing hearing, telling Judge Thomas Bitter that she does not believe her live-in boyfriend intentionally tried to hit her with his car. She asked the court to not to leave her kids without a father.
