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1963

10 year sentence for conspiracy

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Zuma is convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the South African government and sentenced to ten year’s imprisonment, which he serves on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela and other notable ANC leaders. Whilst imprisoned, Zuma serves as a referee for prisoners’ association football games.

1 Sep, 2006

Felony for killing bear

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Palmer is part of a group of people who kill a black bear in Wisconsin, 40 miles outside area allowed in their permit. He is fined $3,000 and given a year’s probation after pleading guilty.

23 Oct, 2009

Gets community service

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West and road manager, Don Crowley, must complete 50 hours of community service for the American Red Cross in exchange for the dismissal of charges stemming from the paparazzi Los Angeles airport camera attack. West’s lawyer, Blair Berk:

I am very pleased the court granted dismissal of all charges.

15 Mar, 2011

Three years probation on terror-related charge

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Simpson is sentenced to three years of probation. The FBI had claimed that Simpson was traveling to Somalia to engage in “violent jihad.” with the al-Shabaab terror group. After electing to trial by judge rather than jury, Judge Mary H. Murguia finds there isn’t enough evidence to support the FBI’s claim that the travel was related to terrorism. However he is convicted on the lesser charge of making a false statement.

9 Jul, 2014

Pleads ‘no contest’ to misdemeanor vandalism

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Bieber pleads “no contest” to one count of misdemeanor vandalism. Bieber had egged his neighbor Jeffrey Schwartz’s Calabasas home earlier this year; he will have to pay $80,900 in damages and will remain on probation for two years, requiring him to take twelve separate weekly angry management classes and serve five days of community service. He has been ordered to not come within one hundred yards of Schwartz and his family. A source close to Bieber says:

Justin is glad to get this matter resolved and behind him. He will continue to move forward focusing on his career and his music.

26 Jul, 2014

£134,000 used for Goa trips, cosmetic surgery

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Fifty-two-year-old Karen Trant of Dartmouth is sentenced to 27 months by the Plymouth Crown Court after pleading guilty to three counts of dishonest representation for dishonestly claiming £134,000  benefits over a 13-year period. She used the proceeds to holiday in Goa and get cosmetic surgeries done in India.

20 Feb, 2015

One year, one day sentence

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McDonnell is sentenced to one year and one day in prison for her role in a bribery scheme.

I would ask in your sentence today that you consider the punishment I’ve already received. My marriage is broken, my family is hurting and my reputation is in shatters. The venom from that snake has poisoned my marriage, has poisoned my family, has poisoned the commonwealth that I love.

23 Feb, 2015

Gets 5-year sentence

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As part of the Egyptian government’s crackdown on dissent, Abd El Fattah is sentenced to five years in prison. He is convicted of taking part in an unauthorized demonstration against military trials of civilians. He must also pay a $13,000 fine.

24 Feb, 2015

Capital murder conviction

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A Texas jury rejects Routh’s insanity plea finding him guilty of capital murder in the deaths of Kyle and Littlefield. Judge Jason Cashon sentences Routh to life in prison without possiblity for parole. Littlefield’s mother, Judy Littlefield:

We’ve waited two years for God to get justice for us on behalf of our son and, as always, God has proved to be faithful. We’re so thrilled that we have the verdict that we have tonight.

3 Mar, 2015

Pleads guilty

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In a plea deal with the Justice Department, Petraeus agrees to plead guilty to one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material. He could have spent up to one year in prison, but prosecutors will recommend a sentence of two years probation and a $40,000 fine.

10 Mar, 2015

Receives prison sentence

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Rush gets three to seven years in prison for killing Rocco. Rush declined to speak on his own behalf. His defense attorney also remained silent, and he didn’t call any witnesses. Only Rocco’s human partner testified.

I lost my partner from this. He was also a family member.

23 Mar, 2015

Sentenced to nine years

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After admitting to sexually assaulting one woman and trying to attack another in Arizona, Sharper is sentenced to nine years in federal prison. The sentence came down immediately after the guilty plea. Police say Sharper drugged three women and sexually assaulted two of them in an apartment in Tempe. A search of the apartment turned up a shot glass with a white residue from the sedative zolpidem, for which Sharper had had a prescription. Sharper is accused of drugging and assaulting women in four states altogether.

13 Apr, 2015

Sentenced to life without parole

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Judge Sherry Stephens sentences Arias to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Stephens had to rule on whether Arias would serve her natural life in prison or have the possibility of parole after 25 years. After hearing emotional statements from Alexander’s sisters, the court also heard Arias’ mother asking for leniency, and then Arias’ final plea to receive the possibility of parole in 25 years. Arias:

It’s my firm belief that death would bring me untold peace and freedom. If I die today, I would be free and I would be at peace. For years, that’s exactly what I wanted. But I have to fight for my life just like I did on June 4, 2008 because I realize how selfish it would be for me to escape accountability for this mess that I created.

Arias maintains that Alexander was trying to attack her when she stabbed him multiple times and shot him.

To this day I cannot believe I was capable of doing something that terrible. I’m truly disgusted and I’m repulsed with myself. I wish there was some way I could take it back.

Alexander’s relatives and friends all wear blue in solidarity. Prosecutor Juan Martinez says they want the maximum sentence:

not because they want to be vindictive, but [because] as you have also seen, what happened in that bathroom was a butchering.

15 Apr, 2015

Life in prison without parole

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Hernandez is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of  Lloyd. The sentencing is a formality because a first-degree murder conviction in Massachusetts carries an automatic sentence of life without parole. It also automatically triggers an appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court. No date for that appeal has been set.

21 Apr, 2015

Jailed

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Mursi is sentenced and jailed for 20 years along with 12 Muslim Brotherhood members on charges of violence, kidnapping, and torture. They are acquitted on charges of murder. They plan to appeal. After the reading of the verdict, they chant,

God is Greatest.

Mursi still faces charges in four additional cases.

‘Seduced’ by ISIS

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A 16-year-old South Carolina boy is sentenced to five years in juvenile prison on a gun charge related to plans to join ISIS. A solicitor with the 16th Circuit describes the teen as

. . . wholeheartedly sincere in his beliefs, and we are very concerned for the safety of the community and the country . . . He had a plan to randomly shoot American soldiers. [The boy] embraced the ideology [of ISIS]. [He was] seduced by the radical ideology known in the Middle East as ISIS. He wanted to join.

The teen apologizes in court.

I just regret it. If I get out, I will be a completely different person. I want to change everything I did and go back and have a nice life.

28 Apr, 2015

Executed

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Indonesia executes eight people for drug offenses including two Australians, Chan and Sukumuran who mere members of Bali 9. Filipino woman Mary Jane Veloso receives a last-minute temporary reprieve. Chan’s brother Michael:

Australian pair’s lawyer:

11 May, 2015

Sentenced to three and a half years

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Sterling leaves courtSterling is sentenced to three-and-a-half years in federal prison for giving journalist classified information about an operation to retard Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Judge Brinkema says she was swayed  to reduce the sentence — which could have been between 19 years and seven months at the low end and 24 years and five months on the high end — due to Sterling’s accomplishments, but that he had caused particular damage by effectively revealing the identity of a man working with the CIA and that he deserved a harsher penalty than other recently accused leakers because he had not pleaded guilty and admitted wrongdoing.

If you do knowingly reveal these secrets, there’s going to be a price to be paid.

Sterling’s lawyers praise the sentence:

In some cases, the jury gets it wrong. That said, the judge today got it right.

Brinkema allows Sterling to remain out on bond untilprison officials determine when and where he will serve his sentence.