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Article: Tyson Receives One-Year Jail Sentence On Assault Charge.(boxer Mike Tyson)(Brief Article)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- February 22, 1999
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Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was sent back to jail to serve a one-year jail sentence for assaulting two motorists after a traffic accident.
After a three-hour hearing in Rockville, MD, Judge Stephen Johnson, who said Tyson "repeatedly speaks and acts compulsively and violently," sentenced the embattled boxer to two concurrent two-year sentences, but he suspended one year. The judge also fined Tyson $5,000 and sentenced him to two years probation after his release from jail.
The judge apparently was not moved by a letter from Tyson, read aloud in court, that said, "Jail would mean I lose everything."
He was led away from the courtroom ...