LEBANON — A 39-year-old Tennessee businessman who admitted he posed as a police officer while trying to coerce a young woman for sex indicated Wednesday he might back out of a plea agreement.

        Sentencing in Warren County Common Pleas Court was postponed after Judge Neal Bronson said he failed to advise Mark Mixner earlier that a conviction on charges of kidnapping and possession of criminal tools would automatically cause him to be labeled a sexual offender.

        That designation would require the father of two to report his whereabouts to authorities for 10 years.

        Mr. Mixner pleaded guilty to the charges last month in an agreement with prosecutors that included the dismissal of a charge of impersonating an officer. He faces up to 11 years in prison.

        Mr. Mixner's attorney, Dennis Lieberman, said his client needed two weeks to decide whether he would go ahead with the plea or withdraw it.

        Mr. Mixner, a partner in Ophthalmic Group in Knoxville, was visiting the area on business Dec. 6, 2000, when police said he used flashing red and blue lights to pull over Karli Sizemore, then 19, on Ohio 741 in Springboro. Ms. Sizemore, who had just left a West Carrollton nightclub, said Mr. Mixner told her he was on undercover drunken driving patrol, and that he asked for oral sex and other sexual favors.

        He let her leave when she declined and began crying, then fled as a Springboro officer pulled over to check the stopped vehicles.

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