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Article: Ex-judge won't get shorter sentence; Roland Amundson had sought boot camp to trim his prison time.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- November 25, 2004
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Byline: Paul Gustafson; Staff Writer
An attempt by a former state judge convicted of theft to have his prison term cut has been rejected by a federal judge.
Former Minnesota Court of Appeals Judge Roland Amundson alleged in a lawsuit that state corrections officials violated his constitutional rights by rescinding his entry into a prison boot camp program that could have reduced his five-year, nine-month sentence to about 1 1/2 years served in prison.
Amundson, convicted of stealing more than $300,000 from a mentally disabled woman's trust fund, argued that he was treated differently from other inmates who committed similar economic crimes and ...