Husband sentenced to 10 years in Idaho for attemped strangulation, choking of wife

A Nampa, ID man was sentenced to 10 years in prison with 5 to serve for beating, choking, setting their marital bed on fire and dousing his then wife with lighter fluid. Michael Eugene Hart, 29, was sentenced by Judge Gordon Petrie Monday, November 10 for the charges of arson and attempted strangulation for the attack on Jessica Holmes, who was able to flee her attacker with her two kids.