GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A former Byron Center teacher and coach who was convicted of having sex with a student managed to win a state Supreme Court appeal, but lost when he ended up getting more time in prison when he was re-sentenced.

Glenn Davis, 43, pleaded guilty to having sex multiple times with a 15-year-old student over a seven-month period starting September 2012. He was sentenced in October 2013 to six to 30 years in prison but appealed that term and based on a faulty calculation of sentencing guidelines.

The state's highest court granted him the right to be re-sentenced and the new correctly calculated guidelines called for a sentence lower that the one he received.

However, Judge Dennis Leiber found out that since he has been in prison, Davis has used his family and friends to secret notes out of prison. The messages were left in a car parked near a bar in Byron Center and retrieved by the victim during the nearly three years Davis has been behind bars.

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