{"id":31184,"date":"2023-10-12T15:15:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T21:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-teen-pleads-guilty-in-mothers-murder-is-sentenced-to-24-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:36:00","slug":"cortez-teen-pleads-guilty-in-mothers-murder-is-sentenced-to-24-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-teen-pleads-guilty-in-mothers-murder-is-sentenced-to-24-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez teen pleads guilty in mother\u2019s murder, is sentenced to 24 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shyanne Aspen Boyd, the 16-year-old accused of stabbing her mother, Shaylie Lynn Boyd, to death in her sleep in 2022, pleaded guilty as an adult Wednesday in Cortez to second-degree murder and aggravated robbery and was sentenced to 24 years in prison.<\/p>\n

At the end of August, Boyd\u2019s plea deal was struck down by Chief Judge Todd Plewe of the 22nd Judicial District, who said the deal was too lenient for the severity of Boyd\u2019s crimes. The defense drew up another plea deal, which was accepted Wednesday by Plewe.<\/p>\n

In the new plea, Boyd pleaded guilty as an adult to second-degree murder and aggravated robbery. In the original plea, she pleaded guilty to a juvenile charge of aggravated robbery and would have spent five years in the Department of Youth Services and seven years in the Youthful Offenders System, for a total of 12 years.<\/p>\n

Now, because she pleaded guilty as an adult to both charges, she will serve five years in the DYS, then 19 years in the Department of Corrections, for a total of 24 years.<\/p>\n

Boyd will receive credit for the time she\u2019s already served in DYS, a little over a year, lowering her time in DYS to four years upon sentencing.<\/p>\n

Plewe said he agreed to allow Boyd to serve a few years in DYS so that she would receive mental health treatment before being transferred to a state DOC prison.<\/p>\n

When asked by Plewe, Boyd said she understood the charges and her sentence, saying she pleaded guilty to robbing and murdering her mother.<\/p>\n

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Shaylie Boyd in a Facebook photo posted on July 15, 2022. (Facebook\/Shaylie Boyd)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Plewe asked Boyd\u2019s family and friends if they would like to address the court before the sentence was official, but their representative said the family had said all they had to say at the previous court hearing.<\/p>\n

Boyd also declined to address the courtroom.<\/p>\n

Before delivering Boyd\u2019s sentence, Plewe addressed family and friends of Shaylie Lynn Boyd, who had demanded a stiff sentence. Acknowledging that they might be disappointed with the plea and sentence, he said that he felt it best for Boyd to receive treatment before serving time in the DOC.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want the family members to know I listened. \u2026 I took it to heart,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also expressed his sympathy for their loss, saying cases like this one are difficult to preside over because to the nature of the crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope you will accept my deepest condolences. I can\u2019t imagine what you\u2019re going through,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Plewe then addressed Boyd, saying the crimes she committed were \u201creprehensible\u201d and that she had committed the \u201cworst crime to take a life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou deserve to be punished for those crimes,\u201d he said. He then gave her a word of advice and encouragement, telling her she could be a different person when she is released from jail and make different decisions, if she chooses to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou decide what you do from now on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Boyd was then given her sentence of five years in DYS, with credit for time already served, and her consecutive sentence of 19 years in the DOC for the second-degree murder of her mother and aggravated robbery.<\/p>\n

After the sentencing, Boyd briefly looked back at her family before being taken from the courtroom.<\/p>\n

Boyd stabbed her mother to death on July 29, 2022, in her home on County Road L in Cortez. She was later found dead by family members about 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

After the stabbing, Boyd, who was 15 years old at the time, fled with a 16-year-old boy in her family\u2019s green Dodge Caravan before turning herself in on July 30 in Leupp, Arizona, 44 miles northeast of Flagstaff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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