FARMINGTON – A district court judge partially revoked a Farmington man’s probation Monday and ordered him to serve six more years of his 20-year manslaughter sentence from 2000.

Jeremiah Paulton, 26, was 16 when he stabbed Blaine Jasper, during a neighbor dispute, under the armpit and the knife punctured a lung in 1999. Paulton served time in juvenile detention and was tried as an adult.

He initially served seven years of the sentence and was released in 2005. He still has time remaining on his six-year probation to be served after he is released by the Department of Corrections.

Judge Valerie Stanfill also sentenced Paulton on Monday to serve 364 days for a misdemeanor terrorizing charge for threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child in August 2008.

Stanfill had found Paulton guilty of the terrorizing charge in January. That sentence will run concurrent with the probation revocation.

It is the second time since Paulton’s release that his probation has been partially revoked. He admitted two years earlier to violating his probation after being charged with assault. He served 21 days on that charge.

Paulton has been held at Franklin County jail for nearly nine months on the latest arrest.

Prior to sentencing, Assistant District Attorney James Andrews told the court that Paulton shows a pattern of escalated violence toward others, starting with low-level threats that eventually lead to serious violence.

There is nothing in the forensic evaluation that shows that Paulton has changed since 1999 when he stabbed Jasper, Andrews said. It shows there is a chronic pattern of maladjustment and Paulton continues to blame others, Andrews said.

Jasper’s family members spoke in court, including two brothers who read letters from Jasper’s children, who were 2 and 3 when their father died.

Blaine’s Jasper’s 12-year-old son wrote in a letter, read by his uncle Gary Jasper, that Paulton was still a threat to society.

Jasper’s family asked the court to send Paulton back to serve the remainder of the manslaughter sentence. They didn’t want to see him kill again, they said.

“There is nothing this court can do here today that will bring Mr. Jasper back,” Paulton’s attorney, Joshua Robbins, said. “Jeremiah is deeply disturbed about it.”

Paulton needs to become a functioning member of society, he said. If he needs to seek a residential program for substance abuse, as pointed out in the evaluator’s report, there are a number of programs available in the community.

He also disputed Andrews’ characterization of Paulton.

“Mr. Paulton has been working hard to stay out of trouble. There have been some bumps along the way,” Robbins said.

Paulton was trying to help protect his daughter, Robbins said, in reference to the terrorizing charge. Paulton called his daughter’s mother to find out how she was after an accident the two were in and the situation escalated from there.

“His actions may not be right,” Robbins said. “He needs help to become a functioning member of the community.”

Paulton has served nine months in jail for the terrorizing charge, Robbins said, which was a substantial amount of time for him to reflect and decide how he should lead his life.

It’s better for him to get the help he needs now rather than wait until after he serves the remaining 13-year sentence, Robbins said.

Paulton addressed the Jasper family, apologizing for what happened 10 years ago.

He understood the family doesn’t like him, he said.

“I do have a lot of remorse for what happened,” Paulton said. “If I could change the past, I would in a heartbeat. I’m sorry for that. I wish I could change it.”

Stanfill told the Jasper family that she heard their pleas to put Paulton away.

The problem is Paulton is only 26 years old and even if he serves the remainder of his original sentence he would still be in his 30s when he gets out, Stanfill said.

Her sentence to Paulton will leave about seven years remaining, that may be revoked in the future if another offense is committed, she said. He’ll also have to serve out the remainder of the probation and complete additional probation requirements, including a battering intervention program, substance-abuse treatment and psychological counseling.