The judge will have sole discretion in fashioning Richards’ sentence after hearing arguments from the lawyers in the case. Richards faces a possible maximum sentence of 13 to 26 years in prison on the charges. In the message, Richards allegedly told the girl he wanted to kiss her two times during an upcoming field trip to Washington, D.C., that Richards was chaperoning the next day. Upon returning to her desk, the girl immediately contacted her father, the principal and the school resource officer to report what had happened. In that message Richards wrote, “That came out all wrong.