A Butler County judge denied John Carter’s request for early release Friday, telling the man who admitted to killing his then-fiancée, Katelyn Markham, that serving half of his three-year sentence isn’t enough.
“We don’t get to hit a reset button. We don’t get to undo what’s been done. ‘Boy, I’m a great guy other than that day that I killed someone,'” Judge Daniel Haughey said during the hearing.
Carter pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in June 2024 and was sentenced to 36 months in jail — the maximum penalty for the charge. He was seeking early release based on good behavior in prison, with his defense calling him a model inmate…