AUBURN — A Skowhegan man who was sentenced in January 2011 to three years in prison may soon be freed.

On Tuesday, Glen Witham, 42, asked Androscoggin County Superior Court Justice Donald Marden for new trial. Marden denied the request.

There was too little new in the facts of Witham’s conviction for a high-speed chase that ended when he crashed his car into a vehicle driven by a pregnant woman, Marden said.

Current court records indicate that Witham is due to complete his sentence next August.

However, a re-examination of the transcript of Witham’s original court case and sentencing, presided over by Marden, suggests Witham was due to be released last month.

“It was the court’s mistake of fact,” Marden said Tuesday.

The court has a responsibility to ensure that its sentences are correct, he said.

Marden ordered Witham to be returned to Central Maine Pre-Release Center in Hallowell where his sentence will be recalculated.

Assistant District Attorney Nicholas Worden said Witham could be released in “hours.”

His release would cap years of court trouble that included numerous convictions for burglary and theft with sentences as high as four years.

When the chase occurred, he was being investigated for theft of laptop computers.

When Androscoggin County Deputy Maurice Drouin approached Witham on May 12, 2010, Witham ran.

Beginning in Greene, Witham raced up Route 202 through Monmouth into Winthrop in a Dodge Stratus, police said. Witham managed to avoid spike mats at two roadblocks before the chase ended with the crash.

The pregnant woman suffered minor injuries in the collision.

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