FARMINGTON – A judge denied a request Thursday to amend bail for a Farmington man serving six years of probation for a 2000 manslaughter conviction. Jeremiah Paulton, 25, is accused of committing a new crime, the second in two years.

Paulton pleaded not guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor charge of terrorizing in 11th District Court in Farmington. Police charged him in August after a woman said he threatened to kill her, Assistant District Attorney Andrew Robinson told the court.

Paulton was 16 when he was accused of stabbing and killing Blaine Jasper with a knife during an altercation in April 1999.

Paulton pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Nov. 22, 2000, and was sentenced to serve seven years of a 20-year sentence in prison and six years probation upon release. He was initially charged with murder in the case and served 578 days in juvenile detention before he was tried as an adult and he pleaded to the manslaughter charge. The court gave him credit for the time served.

Paulton is being held without bail at the Franklin County jail in Farmington after his arrest in August. He has a probation revocation hearing scheduled in October for the new violation.

Paulton had served a partial probation revocation when he admitted to violating his probation in August 2006. He was sentenced to 21 days in jail and a charge of misdemeanor assault, the basis for the probation violation, was dismissed in an agreement with the state.

His attorney, Joshua Robbins said at the time that Paulton was held on bail he couldn’t meet on the probation violation and admitted to the violation as the quickest means to get out of jail so he could see his daughter, Robbins said. He denied the assault, Robbins said.

Robbins attempted Thursday to have Paulton’s bail amended on the probation violation so he could be released on a pre-trial contract.

Paulton has served seven years in jail and has been out on probation for two years, Robbins told the court.

Robbins said Paulton would not be able to meet any significant cash bail amount. He also said he believed the terrorizing allegation against his client would not be able to be proved.

He added Paulton was not a flight risk because he has lived in the area all of his life and has family in the area.

Prosecutor Robinson reviewed Paulton’s history with the court before he said the victim in relation to the terrorizing charge has already sought a protection order because she was in fear for her life.

Robinson said, under the circumstances, no post-conviction bail is appropriate and asked for $5,000 cash bail on the new terrorizing charge.

Judge Valerie Stanfill said she found probable cause to hold Paulton without bail under the post-conviction bail law.

She also set bail on the terrorizing charge at $1,000 cash, though she said, it was a moot point.