“Culturally accepted pastime”?!?!
From the NYTs:
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A defendant in the sweeping federal prosecution of theft and illegal trafficking of American Indian artifacts received leniency Wednesday when a judge rejected the government’s request for imprisonment.
Prosecutors sought a minimum 18 months in prison for the defendant, Jeanne Redd, who instead got three years of probation and a $2,000 fine for her conviction on seven felony counts of plundering artifacts from tribal and federal lands. Ms. Redd, 59, pleaded guilty in July and surrendered 812 boxes of artifacts.
The judge, Clark Waddoups of Federal District Court here, also sentenced Ms. Redd’s 37-year-old daughter, Jericca Redd, to two years of probation on three similar felony counts. She was not fined.
The women, of Blanding, Utah, were the first to plead guilty among more than two dozen defendants caught up in a two-and-a-half-year sting operation. They were also the first to be sentenced.
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