Former High School Football Star Is Sentenced to 10 Years for Assault

San Gabriel Valley Tribune › October 04, 2008

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LOS ANGELES - Former area high school football star Lawrence Phillips was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for running down several teenagers with his car after a pickup football game near the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 2005.

The sentence was a victory for Phillips' defense team, which had sought the 10-year term. The prosecution had hoped to get 20 years.

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Former High School Football Star Is Sentenced to 10 Years for Assault

"It is disappointing in that I did not get the 20-year sentence," said Richard Todd Hicks, the prosecutor in the case. "However, the victims in the ...

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