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"Jail or no jail? Fateful day arrives for Arenas"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new AP piece focused on the high-profile sentencing question that will be answered at a court proceeding in DC on Friday.  Here is some background to help readers opine on the question: The Washington Wizards three-time All-Star point guard will be sentenced Friday in D.C. Superior Court on one felony count of violating the District of Columbia's strict gun laws. Judge Robert E. Morin will decide whether Arenas does jail time or gets probation. The prosecution and defense teams stated their cases earlier this week in voluminous filings. It's all far beyond anything Arenas imagined on that December morning when he says he brought four guns to the locker room to play a prank on a teammate. Prosecutors want Arenas to go to jail for at least three months...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 25, 2010 (boomark / email).