He also admitted breaking the suspended sentence by taking a car from a driveway in Dawlish, in February, and writing it off on the A379 to Teignmouth.
In the end, the five-year sentence was harsher than the three-year suspended sentence newspapers had predicted.
Judge Shaw said that the case did pass the custody threshold, but the sentence would be suspended for a year.
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The judge rejected calls for a suspended sentence saying that while Bather drove the wrong way for only one-tenth of a mile (0.16 km), it was very dangerous.
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The sentence was suspended last month, but her fate looks dicey.
In April, Jeremy Jaynes, considered among the world's top-ten spammers, got a nine-year prison sentence in America for using false e-mail addresses and aliases to send mass e-mails (though the sentence was suspended pending an appeal).
He had been told that if the money was paid into court then the jail sentence would be suspended.
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For instance, in April, a Virginia judge sentenced a spammer to nine years in prison, though the sentence has been suspended pending an appeal.
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The prosecutors were calling for a ten-month suspended prison sentence for Mr Trichet but, of course, the main penalty he would have suffered would be to forfeit his job at the ECB.
One was given a community order and the other a 16-week suspended sentence at Merthyr Crown Court.
In addition, a Continental mechanic, John Taylor, was given a 15-month suspended prison sentence over the crash.
In July Barton received a four-month suspended prison sentence for the assault in May 2007, when the pair were team-mates at Manchester City.
The Noons were given a six-month sentence suspended for two years and ordered to serve 50 hours of unpaid work, while the Lynchs were given a two year community order, two-year supervision order and 40 hours of unpaid work.
The judge on Monday gave Mr. Say a 10-month jail sentence but suspended it by five years, meaning the pianist won't be jailed if he doesn't repeat the offense within that period.
His lawyers appeal against the fine and suspended one-year jail sentence.
On the day Mr Williamson was given a suspended prison sentence, Mrs Machin wrote him a letter of support, then hugged him outside court.
The sentence was later reduced to 12 months and suspended by the Court of Appeal.
Appeal judges, who heard Nightingale had forgotten he had the gun, cut his sentence to 12 months and suspended it.
Daniele Canarelli was given a suspended prison sentence of one year, in the first case of its kind in France.
She was given a four month suspended sentence last year after Colchester Borough Council brought the action against the family.
Prosecuting Sian Vaughan said Brooks was already the subject of a curfew order, having breached a previous suspended sentence for another matter.
Mrs Pryke's sentence was suspended so that she could take care of the couple's three sons.
Bennett, who is behind the Madeleine Foundation, was given a three-month prison sentence, suspended for a year.
Jonathan Gold, 48, of Coleshill, who pleaded guilty to failing to ensure the safety of a non-employee, was given a suspended seven-month sentence.
Last week, six of the 11 care workers who admitted the neglect or abuse of patients were jailed, and five more given a suspended sentence.
Of the other defendants, Dr Philippe van Winkelberg and Christophe Letien received a one-year suspended sentence, and Alain Peligat and journalist Marie-Agnes Peleran were each given six-month suspended terms, French media reports.
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Mr Justice Paul Butler told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin that the court would sentence father-of-one Maguire to nine years with six years suspended, having regard to evidence that the defendant was a "vulnerable and biddable" character.
Will Smith was suspended four games and Scott Fujita (now with the Cleveland Browns) got a three game sentence.
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The WICB disciplinary committee had said they would prefer for Samuels not to face a ban, recommending a suspended sentence on account of Samuels' good behaviour.
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