CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) Rams defensive end Leonard Little was sentenced Friday to two years' probation for speeding last year.
Little was convicted last month of misdemeanor speeding but was acquitted of driving while intoxicated following his arrest April 24, 2004.
On Friday, St. Louis County Circuit Judge Emmett O'Brien rejected a prosecutor's request that Little get 30 days of ''shock time'' in jail. But O'Brien emphasized that the 30-year-old Little may not consume alcohol as a condition of his probation, and that if he does he'll get six months in jail.
''I'm told you do not intend to drink and drive or consume any alcoholic beverages,'' O'Brien told Little. ''If you fulfill your promise, you will have no problems.''
Little pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a 1998 drunken-driving accident in downtown St. Louis that killed 47-year-old Susan Gutweiler.
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Little was convicted last month of misdemeanor speeding but was acquitted of driving while intoxicated following his arrest April 24, 2004.
On Friday, St. Louis County Circuit Judge Emmett O'Brien rejected a prosecutor's request that Little get 30 days of ''shock time'' in jail. But O'Brien emphasized that the 30-year-old Little may not consume alcohol as a condition of his probation, and that if he does he'll get six months in jail.
''I'm told you do not intend to drink and drive or consume any alcoholic beverages,'' O'Brien told Little. ''If you fulfill your promise, you will have no problems.''
Little pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a 1998 drunken-driving accident in downtown St. Louis that killed 47-year-old Susan Gutweiler.
</WIRE_BODY>Associated Press
