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	Former Fairbanks Pastor Will Remain in Jail during Appeal Process By Sam Friedman Fairbanks Daily News-Miner December 30, 2011 http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/16950643/article-Former-Fairbanks-pastor-will-remain-in-jail-during-appeal-process?instance=home_news_window_left_top_2 The former pastor of a Fairbanks church will have to remain in jail while he appeals a 2010 conviction for sexual abuse of a minor. In a bail hearing Friday morning, Superior Court Judge Michael McConahy said it was legal for him to grant bail for release Shawn Anthony Justice, 33, but said Justice is too much of a flight risk and danger to the community to be monitored by a third-party custodian or an electronic ankle monitor. Justice had asked to be released to the custody of two women, one of whom attended the bail hearing. Justice was sentenced to seven years in jail this year after a Fairbanks jury found him guilty of eight counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor for having sex with a then-15-year-old girl in 2007. Justice met the victim when he was a pastor at Corinthian Baptist Church. Justice had a previous conviction for having sex with a teenage member of a church choir he directed in Virginia when he was 24. Justice attended Friday’s hearing telephonically from a prison in Colorado. Contact: sfriedman@newsminer.com
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