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08-24-2009, 03:14 PM
Report: Taylor gets 5 years in prison
Dirk Nowitzki's former fianceé, Cristal Taylor, was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for violating probation in a 12-year-old case, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Taylor appeared Monday morning in circuit court in St. Charles, Mo. on the forgery and theft case. She admitted failing to check in with a probation officer and being arrested twice in Texas in 2000 for misdemeanors.
Taylor was engaged to Nowitzki prior to being arrested at his home in May and accused of failing to pay for $11,000 in dental work in Texas in 2004. She claims she is pregnant with his child.
That arrest brought up Taylor's past criminal record, including the case in St. Charles from 1997 in which she was accused of forgery and stealing. She pleaded guilty in 1999 and was placed on probation.
Monday, Circuit Judge Nancy Schneider sentenced Taylor to concurrent five-year prison terms for three felony counts and a one-year jail term for a misdemeanor. However, Taylor was credited for one year of probation, reducing the sentence to four years.
Taylor's attorney, Matthew Fry, said she also will receive credit for more than 100 days she spent in custody waiting for the case to be decided.
In July, sources told ESPN's John Barr the FBI had seized recordings of threatening jailhouse phone calls made by Taylor to Nowitzki's attorney.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4419848
Dirk Nowitzki's former fianceé, Cristal Taylor, was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for violating probation in a 12-year-old case, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Taylor appeared Monday morning in circuit court in St. Charles, Mo. on the forgery and theft case. She admitted failing to check in with a probation officer and being arrested twice in Texas in 2000 for misdemeanors.
Taylor was engaged to Nowitzki prior to being arrested at his home in May and accused of failing to pay for $11,000 in dental work in Texas in 2004. She claims she is pregnant with his child.
That arrest brought up Taylor's past criminal record, including the case in St. Charles from 1997 in which she was accused of forgery and stealing. She pleaded guilty in 1999 and was placed on probation.
Monday, Circuit Judge Nancy Schneider sentenced Taylor to concurrent five-year prison terms for three felony counts and a one-year jail term for a misdemeanor. However, Taylor was credited for one year of probation, reducing the sentence to four years.
Taylor's attorney, Matthew Fry, said she also will receive credit for more than 100 days she spent in custody waiting for the case to be decided.
In July, sources told ESPN's John Barr the FBI had seized recordings of threatening jailhouse phone calls made by Taylor to Nowitzki's attorney.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4419848