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December 21, 2011, 6:07 p.m. A Las Vegas judge Wednesday sentenced boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. to 90 days in jail for his role in a 2010 domestic violence case involving two of his children and their mother. Mayweather pleaded guilty to a reduced domestic-violence misdemeanor charge and no contest to two harassment misdemeanor charges in the [...]

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December 16, 2011       1:31 pm After evading capture for more than two years in what prosecutors called “a brazen disrespect for the law,” Colton Harris-Moore pleaded guilty Friday to more than 33 counts of burglary, theft and other charges in a two-year crime wave that earned him an international cult following as the “Barefoot [...]

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December 16, 2011        12:53 pm Federal prosecutors in the Barry Bonds perjury trial said that his sentence of home confinement for a conviction on obstruction of justice was “almost laughable.” U.S. Atty. Matthew A. Parrella strongly objected to Bonds’ probationary sentence, saying it amounted to “a slap on the wrist.” The former San [...]

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December 7, 2011       10:48 a.m. Rod Blagojevich, Illinois’ 40th governor, was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday for the attempted sale of a U.S. Senate seat, illegal shakedowns for campaign cash and lying to federal agents. U.S. District Judge James Zagel handed down the sentence after a somber Blagojevich, his voice [...]

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  7:51 AM on 28th October 2011 A high school teacher was convicted today of having sex with five teenagers after a judge threw out an insanity plea that suggested the pupils took advantage of her. Stacy Schuler, 33, was sentenced to four years in prison for the encounters with the boys, some of them [...]

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Oct 21, 2011 3:23 PM MT An Edmonton foster mother convicted of manslaughter in the death of a three-year-old boy in her care has been sentenced to six years in prison. Lily Choy, 37, was found guilty by an Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench judge last month. Choy had been sentenced to three years after [...]

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October 15, 2011 |  8:43 am A Costa Mesa man on Friday received a 20-year sentence and four months in prison for killing an Orange Coast College student and model in a drunk-driving crash on Valentine’s Day 2010. Gustavo Adrian Vega, 24, was sentenced in Orange County Superior Court for killing Cara Lee, 20. Vega had [...]

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October 13, 2011    11:18 am The fallen hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam received the longest prison sentence on record for insider trading on Thursday, a watershed moment in the government’s aggressive two-year campaign to root out the illegal exchange of confidential information on Wall Street. Judge Richard J. Holwell sentenced Mr. Rajaratnam, the former head [...]

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Sep 1, 2011   3:08 PM ET A Renfrew, Ont., contractor has been sentenced to 71 days in jail and his company fined $90,000 for making deceptive claims and failing to refund customers. Phil Slobodzian and his company PSC New Home Construction Inc. were found guilty of: engaging in unfair practices by making false, misleading or [...]

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Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan and Jordan Blackshaw were jailed for four years 17 August 2011 Last updated at 13:45 ET A Cheshire man jailed for using Facebook to incite disorder during last week’s riots is to appeal against his prison sentence. Jordan Blackshaw, from Marston, was jailed for four years at Chester Crown Court on Tuesday, along [...]

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July 27, 2011 The “boy killer” who for many became a symbol of the lawlessness and social deterioration of Mexican society because of the nation’s drug war was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for killing four people in Morelos state. Edgar Jimenez Lugo, alias “El Ponchis,” was 14 when he was arrested by [...]

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Jul 13, 2011 5:17 PM PT A former Abbotsford, B.C., Catholic school teacher has been found guilty of charges related to sending lewd text messages to a student. Martin Careen was charged in 2009 with invitation to sexual touching involving a female student who was 17 at the time. Careen, 51, had pleaded not guilty [...]

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14 July 2011 Last updated at 03:04 ET Colombian colonel sentenced for faking civilian murders   The false positives scandal arose during President Alvaro Uribe’s campaign to crush left-wing rebels A Colombian army colonel has admitted his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were rebels killed in combat. Colonel [...]

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July 9, 2011 5:05 p.m. EDT The former director of a Chicago-area cemetery where hundreds of graves were dug up and resold has pleaded guilty to several charges involving the desecration of human remains. Carolyn Towns, 51, who ran the Burr Oak Cemetery when the allegations surfaced in 2009, was sentenced to 12 years in [...]

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Casey Anthony enters the courtroom and speaks to her attorney Dorothy Clay Sims for her sentencing on charges of lying to a law enforcement officer at the Orange County Courthouse Orlando, Fla. on Thursday, July 7, 2011. Thursday, July 07, 2011 11:34 AM BREAKING NEWS: Casey Anthony will be released from jail Sunday, July 17, [...]

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06/30/11 06:57 PM ET The circus surrounding the Casey Anthony case reared its ugly head again Thursday when a 28-year-old restaurant server made an obscene gesture toward an attorney in the courtroom. Matthew Bartlett, an employee of TGI Friday’s in Orlando, Fla., was sentenced to six days in the Orange County Jail and ordered to [...]

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07/1/11 09:04 AM ET An Australian man dubbed the “Facebook killer” after posting he was “bout to kill ma kid” on the social media site before repeatedly stabbing his two-year-old daughter and leaving her to die has been sentenced to life in prison. As the Newcastle Herald is reporting, Ramazan Acar, 24, repeatedly taunted his [...]

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23 June 2011 Last updated at 10:57 ET Grammy-award-winning star Buju Banton has been sentenced to 10 years in jail in the US for his role in setting up a cocaine deal in 2009. The singer, whose real name is Mark Myrie, was told at Tampa federal court that he must serve five years’ probation [...]

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16 June 2011  09:16 ET A juror who contacted a defendant via Facebook, causing a £6m drugs trial to collapse, has been jailed for eight months for contempt of court. Joanne Fraill had admitted the charge, in the first UK case of its kind. London’s High Court heard that Fraill, 40, of Blackley, Greater Manchester, [...]

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02/11/2011 05:42:04 AM PST The family of murder victim Jennifer Schipsi wept with relief Thursday, moments after a Santa Clara County jury convicted her boyfriend Bulos “Paul” Zumot of strangling her and setting fire to their Palo Alto home. “I heard that word ‘guilty’ and I thanked Jesus, and Jenny gave me a hug,” Schipsi’s [...]

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