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"Athlete's sentence: No prison, no sports"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this local Ohio article that a helpful reader sent my way.  Here are the fascinating details: Applause turned to gasps in a Butler County courtroom Thursday as a judge announced an unusual punishment for a Middletown track and football star: Dwayne "Deejay" Hunter is forbidden from playing organized sports during his five-year probation for a felonious assault conviction. "We're going to see who Dwayne Hunter the person is, not who Dwayne Hunter the star athlete is," declared Judge Andrew Nastoff, as he said Hunter still has a six-year prison sentence that would be imposed if he violates any conditions of his probation. Nastoff had warned Hunter: "You're 19 years old. And you are standing right here, six inches away from a prison number and the potential to go away to prison for eight years - that's two presidential terms...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 18, 2009 (boomark / email).