Comments on: Sid Backstrom sentence

By: nancy

nancy — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:47:12 +0000

Supervised release means that you have to report to the probation officer, usually once a month, for the period of the supervised release. Have to submit to random drug tests and everything else in your life is open to the probation officer during that three years period. If you violate any rule or break the law, you can go back to jail for the entire three years.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:46:06 +0000

Supervised release basically means he reports to a probation offficer for three years after he is released from prison, subject to drug testing, etc.

By: lotus

lotus — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:42:09 +0000

DN 4: parole.

By: NMC

NMC — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:21:34 +0000

He was sobbing through his statement to the point of inaudibility.

By: Confounded

Confounded — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:20:24 +0000

NMC: what was backstrom’s demeanor? Was his wife there? Any family?

By: DeltaNative

DeltaNative — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:15:19 +0000

What is supervised release?

By: NMC

NMC — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:09:53 +0000

well, Ben, closer to me than you but not exactly right. Sorry about the 30/28 mistake at first.

By: lotus

lotus — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:03:30 +0000

DJournal:

For Sidney Backstrom, the self-described worker bee in the high-powered Scruggs Law Firm in Oxford, today was a crushing blow to a promising career - he will spend more than two years in prison for his role in a judicial bribery scheme. Judge Neal Biggers Jr. sentenced Backstrom to 28 months in prison, three years' supervised release after gets out and a $250,000 fine. Backstrom also was ordered to pay for the cost of his own incarceration. Attorneys asked and Biggers agreed to ask the Bureau of Prisons if they would send him to a federal facility in Forrest City, Ark. ...

Has to report same day as Dickie, Aug. 4.

By: Ben Cole

Ben Cole — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:56:09 +0000

I predicted 24 months … you predicted 30. Good work.