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sentencing stories: 45 news summaries

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Paris Was Right:
It's Not Fair!

Numbers show heiress's stint in jail will be longer than 80% of similar offenders

Jun 14, 07 12:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Paris Hilton wasn't just  being a spoiled brat when she cried injustice on being hauled back to jail earlier this week. The weepy celebutante is in fact doing more hard time than most people guilty of crimes like hers, the LA Times reports after  analyzing 1,500 similar cases in... More »

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prison • Paris Hilton • trial • drunk driving • celebrity • sentencing • heiress • injustice

Bring Justice to Libby: Fine Him

Bush can keep Scooter free without letting him off the hook, former attorney says

Jun 7, 07 9:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former federal prosecutor and Bush 41 lawyer William Otis suggests a third way on Scooter Libby—between pardon and prison. The rule of law demands some penalty for leaking Valerie Plame's identity, says Otis, but "a sense of proportionality" rules out sending Libby to the hoosegow. The court's... More »

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presidential pardon • Lewis Scooter Libby • conviction • sentencing • jail • George W. Bush

Give Scooter
a Jail Break

One group's rooting for probation as the man who wouldn't snitch
is sentenced

Jun 5, 07 7:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Scooter Libby facing sentencing today for perjury in the Valerie Plame affair, Salon's Joseph Cooper asks his English class at the Webster Correctional Institution in Connecticut what punishment they would impose. The student cons go for probation, on the grounds that Libby's only crime was that he didn't snitch. More »

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Valerie Plame • White House • Lewis Scooter Libby • sentencing • perjury • press leaks

Hilton Headed
To Hoosegow

Heir-head violates probation, draws
45 days behind bars
(not the fun kind)

May 4, 07 10:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Supply your own "simple life" joke: Paris Hilton is going to jail. After finding that the famous-for-being-famous socialite violated her probation, Los Angeles Superior Court judge Michael Sauer today sentenced her to 45 days. The sometime reality-TV star wept as she learned she has until June 5 to find... More »

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Paris Hilton • drunk driving • sentencing • probation • jail

Judge Bets on New Approach

May 1, 07 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - A New York judge is handing down treatment-oriented sentences to defendants whose crimes result from gambling addiction, on a model introduced to address drug and spousal abuse. Offenders willing to plead guilty can choose Justice Mark Farrell's suburban Buffalo courtroom and receive lighter sentences, along with counseling and status checks... More »

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crime • gambling • trial • addiction • Mark Farrell • judge • sentencing

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