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Title: Former Pitcher Sentenced


RancerDS - March 29, 2007 05:40 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/6618614)
 
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Former major league pitcher Ugueth Urbina was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday for the attempted murder of five workers on his family's ranch.

Urbina, a former pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies, was also found guilty of illegal deprivation of liberty and violating a prohibition against taking justice into his own hands during a dispute over a gun on Oct. 16, 2005, the Attorney General's Office said in a statement.

The 32-year-old free agent was accused of joining a group of men in attacking and injuring workers with machetes and pouring gasoline on them at his family's ranch, located about 25 miles south of Caracas.


It says in the next paragraph that the attorney who represented him thought it was too severe a punishment. Gee, maybe we out to let them off easy for using huge bladed weapons and probably having intent to light them on fire. If it's too severe, it's only by a year or two.



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