McCready Sentenced to a Year in Prison

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McCready Sentenced to a Year in Prison
Published: 9/15/07, 4:45 AM EDT
By JOHN GEROME

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - Mindy McCready was sentenced Friday to a year in jail on a 2004 drug charge after she violated her probation in Florida. The 31-year-old country singer has been in jail since July when she was returned to Nashville after being accused of scratching her mother in a scuffle and resisting sheriff's deputies in her hometown of Fort Myers.

McCready received a suspended three-year sentence in 2004 for fraudulently obtaining prescription painkillers. She was resentenced Friday because of the probation violation.

The singer sobbed as she asked for leniency from Circuit Judge Jeff Bivins.

"Your honor, I can honestly tell you this: This has been the longest two months of my life ... not being able to hold my son ... has been excruciatingly painful."

"I could only say I'm sorry," she said. "Please give me a chance to make things as right as they can possibly be."

Bivins sentenced her to a year in the county jail with credit for 75 days of time served. After her release she will face another two years of probation.

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1. Sad. But why isn't that scumbag Limbaugh in jail too?

That fucker was trafficking drugs.

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2. Rush is protected by NAMBLA

imho... and he's a water carrier for the propaganda machine..

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3. How utterly sad.

When I met her at a Seger show in Nashville in 96, she was the shining queen of Nashville. Radiantly beautiful, she was bright, animated and on top of the world.

Did I mention she was also a breathtaking knockout?

Fucking drugs. Fuck the fucking fuckers. Nothing good ever comes of them.