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PINEDALE—Kari DeWitt knew she was signing herself up for unpleasant times by talking with a journalist. But the 14-year Sublette County resident, office worker and mother of three, did just that, sharing words in support of Cody Roberts.

“By saying this to you, I will get death threats,” Dewitt said Thursday from a shaded picnic table outside of the public library. “I’m going to have to live with the repercussions of this through Christmas.”

Next came the words she worries will spur the harassment.

“Cody is not a psychopath,” DeWitt said. Roberts, she said, is a “good dad.”

“He did something incredibly stupid while drunk. It’s so bad. I get how bad it is,” Dew

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