Backstrom Sentenced To 28 Months In Prison

There has been some confusion in the reporting of the length of the sentence, but both the Daily Journal and folo are reporting that Sid Backstrom was sentenced to 28 months in prison this afternoon by US District Judge Neal Biggers in Oxford. That’s two months less than the maximum under his plea agreement, which capped his sentence at no more than half of whatever sentence Dickie Scruggs received. As with Scruggs, Backstrom was fined $250,000 and ordered to pay for the cost of his incarceration. He was ordered to report to prison on August 4. The court accepted a defense request to ask for imprisonment at Forrest City, Arkansas. UPDATE: here’s the transcript (h/t folo).