Georgia woman jailed for months over $700 fine
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A U.S. woman held in jail for seven   months longer than her original sentence because she was too   poor to pay a $705 fine was freed on Wednesday, her attorney   said.
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William S. Lerach was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to forfeit $7.75 million for concealing illegal payments to a plaintiff in class-action lawsuits.
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A woman who told police she had been raped was jailed for two days after officers found an old warrant accusing her of failing to pay restitution for a 2003 theft arrest.
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AUSTIN, Minn. - A man has been ordered to pay nearly $3,000 to the woman who became seriously ill in April after opening a parking ticket envelope in which he had placed dog feces. Joshua Steven Solberg, 22, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct Friday in Mower District Court.
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A court on Monday jailed a same-sex couple for three years for perjury  -  prompting the defendants to ask the president for help.
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A man has been jailed for seven years for crimes including beating a woman, 58, with a baseball bat.
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SELMER, Tenn. | A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but with time served could be released on probation in a little more than two months.
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A heroin addict who kidnapped a disabled woman while she visited hospital is jailed for over seven years.
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ATHENS -- Tammy Crow had to put it all aside for about four minutes. The sports utility vehicle veering off a snowy road. The two people who died. The three-month jail sentence awaiting back home.
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A Louisiana federal judge on Thursday sentenced Honeywell International Inc  to two years probation and a criminal fine of $8 million related to a 2003 incident in which a toxic chemical killed a Honeywell employee, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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The Supreme Court of the US state of Georgia ordered Friday the release of Genarlow Wilson, who was sentenced to 10 years in jail for having oral sex with an underaged girl when he himself was a teenager.
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A Louisville businessman was sentenced today to seven years and three months in prison for bribing Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) with hundreds of thousands of dollars and company stock to promote his Kentucky firm's high-tech business ventures in Africa.
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A woman has been sentenced to 30 months probation for stealing from the estate of actress Ava Gardner, taking family heirlooms and original Frank Sinatra recordings.
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An Arizona woman was sentenced to seven  years and three months in prison on Monday for attempting to  kill her Marine husband last year at a Kuwait base in a plot  she hoped would be blamed on terrorism.
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A judge in Monroe County, Georgia, has ruled that 21-year-old Genarlow Wilson should be released from a 10-year prison sentence for a consensual sexual encounter he had when he was 17. The original sentence had demanded Wilson be listed as a sex offender. He has been imprisoned for more than two years after his conviction for a sex act with a 15-year-old girl.
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A woman who once was recognized as one of the nation's best trainers and handlers of cadaver-sniffing dogs was sentenced Tuesday to 21 months in prison for planting bones and other fake evidence in cases she worked.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A woman received a 20-year prison sentence Thursday for putting rat poison in her boss' soda to cover up the fact that she was stealing his money.  Femesha Foster, 37, was found guilty Jan.