County Attorney Gets House Arrest in Redo of ‘Unreasonable’ Probation

A former government attorney at the helm of Monroe County, Fla., legal matters has been resentenced after a federal appeals court said his original five-year probation term in a public corruption case was "unreasonable."

But James Hendrick, 61, once again escaped prison time, reports the Miami Herald. Instead, he was re-sentenced to five years of probation with credit for time served—but this time the probation also includes nine months of home confinement.

Hendrick was convicted by a jury in 2007 of obstructing justice and witness-tampering in connection with a cover-up of a bribery scheme involving a hotel project in the Florida Keys.