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| Former NBA Star Faces Sentencing Today |
| By cnn.com |
| Published: 02/23/2010 |
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(CNN) -- Retired New Jersey Nets star Jayson Williams is to be sentenced Tuesday to anywhere from 18 months in prison without the possibility of parole to five years for the fatal shooting eight years ago of his limo driver. Williams, who turned 42 on Monday, is scheduled to appear at 9 a.m. before Somerset County Superior Court Judge Edward Coleman, said Peter Aseltine, a spokesman for the New Jersey attorney general's office. Afterward, he will be taken to the Central Reception and Assignment Facility in Trenton, New Jersey, said Corrections Department spokeswoman Deirdre Fedkenheuer. There, over the course of several weeks, he will be photographed, DNA samples will be taken, and he will be given medical, dental, psychological and educational evaluations, she said. Only afterward will a decision be made about where to send him, she said. Read More. |
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