Sentencing
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Christina Moore, Bristow mom, sentenced in drywall barricade case
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The Prince William County mother who helped trap three of her young children in a bedroom with drywall was sentenced to nine years in prison.
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Jubair Ahmad to be sentenced Friday in terror case
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A sentencing hearing is scheduled Friday for 24-year-old Jubair Ahmad, who pleaded guilty in December to providing material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani organization that has been blamed for the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people.
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Syed Fai, Pakistani agent, to be sentenced in Va.
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A U.S.-based Kashmiri activist will find out if he serves prison time for lying about his links to Pakistan's spy agency while he lobbied members of Congress.
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Nigerian underwear bomber, gets life sentence
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man who admitted to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas 2009, will spend the rest of his life in prison.
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John Robey and Christina Moore, Bristow parents charged with child abuse, neglect, sentenced
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One of the Bristow parents who nailed drywall over a bedroom door to lock their three children inside was sentenced Thursday for felony child abuse charges but avoided prison time.
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Nadeem Akhtar sentenced for conspiring to send nuclear equipment materials to Pakistan
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Nadeem Akhtar of Silver Spring was sentenced for conspiring to export to Pakistan materials and equipment that can be used in nuclear reactors.
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Justin Coleman sentenced to 30 years for child porn
CommentA former John Adams Elementary School teacher was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for producing child pornography.
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Former D.C. mayor's son, Marion Christopher Barry, to be sentenced in drug case
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The son of former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry, who was caught smoking crack cocaine while mayor, is set to be sentenced in a drug case.
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Darren Witmer sentenced in cellmate's murder
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A state prison inmate faces sentencing for the first-degree murder of his cellmate at the maximum-security Western Correctional Institution near Cumberland.
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Casey Anthony sentenced after murder acquittal
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A judge sentenced Casey Anthony to four years in prison for lying to investigators. However, because she has spent more than three years in jail already and has a record of good behavior, she'll walk free next week.
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Raven Masters gets 24 life sentences for setting fire
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A Maryland man convicted of setting fire to a Montgomery County building in order to kill a police detective will spend life in prison.
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Ralph Clark, D.C. man sentenced in Starbucks robbery
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Prosecutors say a Washington man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges stemming from a robbery at a Starbucks at Howard University during which he impersonated a police officer.
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AG Eric Holder testifies about crack cocaine sentencing
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says some prisoners incarcerated for crack cocaine offenses should get a benefit from a new law that lowered crack sentences.
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