Judge cuts sentence in Ind. knife attack

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. -- A southern Indiana prosecutor plans to seek an appeal of a judge's decision to reduce the 60-year sentences of two women convicted in the butcher-knives attack on a pizza-delivery driver in 1997 by so much that they could soon be released from prison.

Shayla Shackleford was 14 at the time of the attack in Jeffersonville and Devonna McDonald was 15. They were tried as adults and convicted by a jury of attempted murder for repeatedly stabbing 42-year-old Albert Yeager.

Defense lawyer Randy Wexler says the attack was heinous, but that Shackleford and McDonald were among the youngest girls tried as adults in Indiana.

Clark County Prosecutor Steve Stewart said the original sentences were appropriate and that he'd ask the state attorney general's office to appeal the decision.