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Peter Pocklington, Ex-Owner of the Edmonton Oilers, Sentenced to Six Months of House Arrest

By Neil Shous, Esq.

Peter Pocklington, the former owner of the Edmonton Oilers?perhaps most notorious for trading the then Oilers superstar Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings back in 1988?was recently convicted of perjury charges. The U.S. federal judge who sentenced Pocklington for lying on his 2008 bankruptcy application ordered the defendant to serve six months under California house arrest instead of the 12-16 month jail sentence he would have otherwise faced. In California, house arrest...interchangeably referred to as home detention, home confinement, or electronic monitoring?is a sentencing option that may be imposed in lieu of a jail or prison sentence. House arrest is not automatically offered by sentencing judges. It is a sentence that must be requested based on appropriate circumstances...continue to full post

Full post as published by California Criminal Defense Blog on November 09, 2010 (boomark / email).