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Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 12:40 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 10 June 2009 12:40
From AL.com:
Alabama Attorney General Troy King on Tuesday dispatched a letter to Australia saying he has great concern with the leniency of the sentence imposed against Gabe Watson of Hoover in the death of his wife.
Watson received a 4½ year sentence reduced to 1 year after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the 2003 drowning death of Christina “Tina” Thomas Watson of Helena while the two were on a honeymoon scuba diving trip off the coast of Queensland.
“As attorney general of the state of Alabama and on behalf of the family of Mr. Watson’s victim, Tina Thomas, I write to express our outrage over the minimal sentence that is likely to result in this defendant spending only 12 months imprisonment,” King wrote.