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Charlie Sheen plea deal includes creative (and dramatic?) sentencing provisions

By Douglas A. Berman

This new CNN report, which is headlined "Charlie Sheen's sentence could include theater internship," details an interesting aspect of a high-profile celebrity sentencing taking place in Aspen today.  Here are the details: Charlie Sheen will stand before a judge Monday afternoon to plead guilty to charges stemming from a Christmas morning argument with his wife in Aspen, Colorado, a prosecutor said. If the judge accepts the plea agreement, the television star would spend the next month as a theater intern by day and a jail inmate at night.  Pitkin County, Colorado, District Attorney Arnold Mordkin would not confirm reports that  Sheen would serve 30 days in jail, but the sheriff has already scheduled a news conference to answer questions about his jail...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 07, 2010 (boomark / email).