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: Legal Pad | LAGuilford to America's Sheriff: Gonna give you some time, Carona
By Richard Binder
Despite the ten-page filing, U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford sentenced former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona to 5 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay a $125,000 fine after being convicted on one count of witness tampering.
Federal prosecutors, in their court papers, had been seeking nine years in prison and a $125,000 fine.
Carona had asked to have the witness-tampering conviction thrown out, a bid that was denied by Guilford.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).
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