Lohan, 26, was on probation at the time of the crash and faces up to 245 days in jail if a judge determines her conduct violated her probation in a 2011 necklace theft case.
The last time we saw the DMCA in action like this, a trio of Xbox modders were facing up to 5 years of prison time, but they ended up with just a few years of probation, and one of 'em got slapped with 6 months of home detention, Martha Stewart-style.
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He had been given four year's probation instead of prison time because of his chronic liver condition.
In the case of Don Chu, who worked at Primary Global Research, the government could not determine an amount of illegal profits and his sentence was two years of probation (no jail time).
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Anurag Dikshit, the former online poker billionaire, was sentenced on Thursday to one year of probation and no jail time in a hearing that highlighted the extreme confusion over how U.S. law applies to online poker.
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She was on probation for theft at the time of the wreck in California, and Sautner had warned the actress she could be sentenced to 245 days in jail if she didn't behave.
Proclaimed as the first victim of Singapore's newly-enforced Computer Misuse Act, the 17-year old Garyl Tan Jia Luo picked up 18 months of probation (some of which will be at home) instead of jail time, but what's potentially worse is the fact that he is not allowed to access the internet during his stint.
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Failure to pay within that time will result in a five-year sentence of probation.
White collar criminals have long asked for probation with community service instead of prison time, arguing that they already have suffered enough and community organizations would benefit from their expertise.
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James Tobin--the New England chairman for President Bush's 2004 campaign and the Northeast field representative for the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2002's congressional elections--was sentenced to ten months' jail time and two years' probation for supposedly being part of a conspiracy that for about two hours on Election Day 2002 blocked some incoming calls to Democratic phone banks arranging transportation for voters.
Long term offenders will continue to be monitored by the probation service for about the same length of time as their prison sentence - for example, an offender given an 18 month sentence will serve nine months in prison, and nine months on licence in the community.
During this time, I taught basic parenting as a volunteer at the Board of Probation and Parole.
The ring leader of the scandal, Abramoff, got 6 years in prison and most of the others involved received no prison time and instead got home confinement or probation.
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The judge revealed that Venables had been living in Cheshire at the time of the offences, and that the case was dealt with by Cheshire police and Cheshire probation service.
Later, the government was defeated a second time when peers backed a move requiring contracts made with probation trusts to make "appropriate provision for the delivery of services to female offenders".
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The bill, whose official name is the Safe, Accountable, Fair, Effective Justice Reinvestment Act of 2015, would create a "presumption in favor of probation as opposed to stiffer penalty such as incarceration" for low-level, first-time and nonviolent crimes.
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