VICKIE SINGER DROPS APPEAL OF SENTENCE

Vickie Singer has dropped the appeal of her five-year federal sentence for bombing the LDS Stake Center in Marion, Summit County.

She was sentenced to five years in prison for her part in the 1988 bombing of the Marion Stake Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.At the same time, U.S. District Judge Bruce S. Jenkins sentenced her son-in-law, Addam Swapp, to 15 years, 10 months; her son, John Timothy Singer, to 10 years; and Swapp's brother, Jonathan Ramon Swapp, 10 years, 1 month.

All defendants have appealed. In addition, the federal government appealed Addam Swapp's sentence on the ground that Jenkins should have added another five years mandatory prison time for use of a firearm (the dynamite) in a crime.

Meanwhile, two weeks ago, Vickie Singer dropped her appeal. At the same time, the U.S. attorney's office agreed it would not appeal for an additional five-year term on the firearms charge.

State lawyers have promised not to prosecute Vickie Singer, said her attorney, Kathryn Collard.

She will serve the entire five years, she added.

Meanwhile, Vickie Singer is in prison facility at Pleasanton, Calif. "She's incredibly homesick," Collard said. "That's just an adjustment I guess a lot of people just can't make. I guess she's one of them."

In court Friday, Jenkins allowed Addam Swapp's appeal to continue.