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发帖数: 29846 | 1 CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois state senator accused of trying to board a
Washington, D.C.-bound flight with a gun pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor
Wednesday and was sentenced to community service.
A judge sentenced Donne Trotter to 60 hours of community service and a year
of court supervision for the one count of reckless conduct. The Chicago
Democrat also was ordered to pay $190 in fines and costs.
As part of the plea deal, Cook County prosecutors dropped the felony charge
of seeking to board an aircraft with a weapon. A felony conviction could
have cost the 63-year-old his Senate job and pension.
"He is very relieved," Trotter's attorney, Thomas Durkin, said in a phone
interview later Wednesday. He called the resolution of the matter "both fair
and appropriate."
Security screeners stopped Trotter at O'Hare International Airport Dec. 5
when they detected the .25-caliber gun. Trotter said he had worked a part-
time security job and forgot the weapon was in a garment bag.
Judge Charles Burns told Trotter Wednesday his community service should be
spent talking about gun safety, said Sally Daly, a spokeswoman for the Cook
County State's Attorney's Office.
Before the incident, Trotter was a front-runner in the race to replace ex-U.
S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. after he resigned. But Trotter withdrew, saying he
didn't want the gun charge to be a distraction. |
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