Herring sentencing hearings moved to Nov.

— Documents filed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Arkansas show sentencing hearings for Donna Christina Herring and other defendants regarding the fraudulent will on the estate of Matthew Seth Jacobs have been reset to November. Donna Herring filed a motion of continuance on Sept. 4 for the sentencing and restitution hearings. It was granted and reset as follows:

• The sentencing hearing for Donna Christina Hearing is reset for 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 12.

• For John Wayne Kinley, the hearing is reset for 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 12.

• The sentencing hearing for Marion Diane Kinley is reset for 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 13.

• For Jordan Alexandra Peterson, the hearing is reset for 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 13.

The restitution hearing for all defendants is reset for 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 14.

Charges stem from a federal indictment indicating the defendants in the falsification of a will belonging to who was injured in a Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion and received a multi-million-dollar settlement.

Jacobs died in an automobile accident on Jan. 19, 2015, at the age of 34. After Jacobs’ death, his son - Jordan Jacobs, along with Matthew Jacobs’ brother - Laurence Reed, searched Jacobs’ home for his last will and testament but were unable to locate it. On Jan. 25, 2015, Donna Herring claimed to have discovered in a gun safe in Jacobs’ home a sealed envelope containing a duplicate of the will and testament. The ‘will’ left Jacobs’ son $50,000 for his education, and the remaining assets to Herring’s daughter.

Court documents also show that Marion Diane Kinley and John Wayne Kinley Jr. - Herring’s sister and brother-in-law - helped Herring create a fraudulent last will and testament on Jacobs online by using a debit card assigned to Marion Kinley on the FormSwift.com website.

Jordan Alexandra Peterson entered a guilty plea on Jan. 25, 2018, for one count of Making a False Statement to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In January of 2019, Herring pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud.

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