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Killer Ex-Cop Begs Jury to Spare His Life

Pleads for life sentence for murdering pregnant girlfriend

(Newser) - A former Ohio police officer convicted last week of murdering his pregnant girlfriend yesterday begged a jury not to sentence him to death. "I'm asking you to spare my life," said a sobbing Bobby Cutts Jr. The jury begins penalty deliberations this afternoon, reports the Canton Repository.

Ex-Brocade CEO Gets 21 Months for Backdating

Gregory Reyes was the first exec convicted of the stock options offense

(Newser) - The first executive ever convicted of backdating stock options was sentenced today to 21 month in prison and ordered to pay a $15 million fine, the Wall Street Journal reports. Former Brocade CEO Gregory Reyes was found guilty in August of 10 fraud and conspiracy charges. He said today he...

Brit Enron Bank Grafters Plead Guilty

'Natwest Three' confess to fraud charge in plea bargain

(Newser) - Three British bankers confessed to an Enron scam in Texas yesterday, admitting to a single charge of transatlantic wire fraud as part of a plea bargain. They'll now have to pay back the $7.3 million the scam netted. The "Natwest Three" said in a statement they hoped this...

Judges Condemn Sentencing Guidelines

High court, Mukasey may give them leeway

(Newser) - Judges across the country are condemning federal sentencing guidelines, 1980s-era anti-drug laws that force them to impose “irrational” sentences, the LA Times reports. “When I have to sentence a midlevel drug dealer to more time than a murderer, something is wrong,” said a judge forced to sentence...

China Will Scale Back Executions
China Will Scale Back Executions
Sep 14, 2007 9:50 AM CDT

China Will Scale Back Executions

Supreme Court orders judges to go easy on the death penalty

(Newser) - China's Supreme Court has ordered judges to stop being so execution-happy. China carries out more capital punishment than the rest of the world combined, but the Supreme People's Court posted an order on its website today that the death penalty should be used only for "an extremely small number...

Duke Prosecutor Will Do One Day Behind Bars

Nifong sentenced to 24 hours for lying about evidence

(Newser) - Mike Nifong, the disgraced district attorney in the Duke rape case, will spend a night in jail for contempt of court, a Durham, NC, judge ruled yesterday. The judge concluded that Nifong, who has already been disbarred, "willfully" withheld DNA evidence that exonerated three lacrosse players accused of raping...

Soldier Draws 110 Years for Rape, Murder

Coconspirators handed tough sentences for young girl's death

(Newser) - A military court handed Jesse Spielman a dishonorable discharge and a 110-year prison sentence for raping and murdering an Iraqi girl last year. Spielman and four comrades planned the 2006 assault on a family near Baghdad over a drunken game of cards; they then gang-raped and murdered the girl, her...

Marine Gets 15 Years for Killing Iraqi

Sergeant was instigator of kidnap, killing to intimidate insurgents

(Newser) - A jury of Iraq veterans sentenced a Marine sergeant to 15 years in prison and dishonorable discharge today for conspiracy to commit murder and unpremeditated murder, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins offered no apology for leading a mission of Marines to kidnap and murder an Iraqi man...

Ex-Qwest CEO Gets 6 Years
Ex-Qwest CEO Gets 6 Years
Jul 27, 2007 5:43 PM CDT

Ex-Qwest CEO Gets 6 Years

Nacchio's insider-trading penalty includes paying $71M

(Newser) - Qwest's former CEO was sentenced to 6 years in prison today for engaging in insider trading while the company's stock plummeted. Joseph Nacchio committed "crimes of overarching greed,'' a federal judge in Denver said as he fined him $19 million in addition to the $52 million he must...

Harsh Reality: Richie Draws 4-Day Sentence

Wrong-way starlet pleads guilty to DUI

(Newser) - Giving the cast of The Simple Life an 0-for-2 record in the California courts, Nicole Richie was sentenced to 4 days in jail today after pleading guilty to driving the wrong way on an LA freeway while under the influence of drugs. The skeletal starlet must attend 21 days of...

Bush Commutes Libby Sentence
Bush Commutes Libby Sentence
Jul 2, 2007 5:41 PM CDT

Bush Commutes Libby Sentence

President spares former Cheney aide jail time; conviction remains

(Newser) - Scooter Libby won't be going to jail: President Bush commuted the former Cheney aide's 30-month sentence for perjury and obstruction of justice tonight, but stopped short of a pardon. The move came hours after a federal appeals court denied Libby's motion for bail pending his appeal.

Chemical Ali Is Sentenced to Hang
Chemical Ali
Is Sentenced
to Hang
Jun 24, 2007 10:31 AM CDT

Chemical Ali Is Sentenced to Hang

Hussein cousin and 2 others get death for wiping out Kurds

(Newser) - The Iraqi commander known as Chemical Ali was sentenced to hang today for ordering the  use of chemical weapons to wipe out whole Kurdish villages, killing some 180,000 people, two decades ago. Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein, and two others found guilty of war crimes by...

High Court Raises Bar for Investors' Suits

Companies trump shareholders for second time in a week

(Newser) - Investors who accuse companies of fraud based on executives' misdeeds must show that they acted intentionally, the Supreme Court ruled today, making it easier for corporations to have shareholder lawsuits dismissed. The decision helps protect companies against frivolous suits by clarifying a 1995 law, the Times reports, but critics say...

Abortion Doc's Killer Draws 2nd Life Sentence

Federal added to state term in 1998 Buffalo sniper case

(Newser) - A militant anti-abortion activist who murdered an obstetrician was sentenced to life in prison on federal charges yesterday. James Kopp is already serving a state term of 25 years to life for the 1998 sniper-style killing of Barnett Slepian, who performed abortions. Kopp is also suspected in four other shootings...

Judge Orders Libby to Prison
Judge Orders Libby to Prison
Jun 14, 2007 3:42 PM CDT

Judge Orders Libby to Prison

Defense likely to appeal trial court's ruling

(Newser) - Scooter Libby may not remain free pending appeal, the judge in his perjury trial ruled today, and must begin serving his 30-month sentence this summer. His defense team will turn next to a federal appeals court, the Washington Post reports, but the most pressing legal question now is whether President...

Paris Was Right: It's Not Fair!
Paris Was Right:
It's Not Fair!
Jun 14, 2007 12:53 PM CDT

Paris Was Right: It's Not Fair!

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

(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...

Bring Justice to Libby: Fine Him
Bring Justice to Libby: Fine Him
Jun 7, 2007 9:47 AM CDT

Bring Justice to Libby: Fine Him

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

(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 $250K...

Give Scooter a Jail Break
Give Scooter
a Jail Break
Jun 5, 2007 7:10 AM CDT

Give Scooter a Jail Break

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

(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.

Hilton Headed To Hoosegow
Hilton Headed
To Hoosegow
May 4, 2007 10:34 PM CDT

Hilton Headed To Hoosegow

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

(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...

Judge Bets on New Approach
Judge Bets on New Approach
May 1, 2007 11:50 AM CDT

Judge Bets on New Approach

(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...

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