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03-28-2007, 03:35 PM
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| | Well Doggies!!!!
Join Date: Nov 2005  Location: Delaware, OH
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| Scary, Urbina gets 14 years!
FOX Sports - - Urbina's lawyer calls 14-year sentence too severe Quote:
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Former major league pitcher Ugueth Urbina was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday for the attempted murder of five workers on his family's ranch.
Urbina, a former pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies, was also found guilty of illegal deprivation of liberty and violating a prohibition against taking justice into his own hands during a dispute over a gun on Oct. 16, 2005, the Attorney General's Office said in a statement.
The 32-year-old free agent was accused of joining a group of men in attacking and injuring workers with machetes and pouring gasoline on them at his family's ranch, located about 25 miles south of Caracas.
"The ruling was too severe," said Jose Antonio Baez, a former attorney who represented Urbina.
Urbina repeatedly has denied involvement with the violence, saying he was sleeping at the time of the attack.
The pitcher's lawyer, Jose Luis Tamayo, has said that Urbina surprised the workers by showing up at his ranch that night while they were bathing in the pool without permission. Urbina spoke sharply to them, but later left and went to sleep, according to Tamayo. Urbina, a two-time All-Star, also played for the Boston Red Sox and Florida Marlins. He last pitched in the major leagues with the Phillies in 2005 and is 30th on the all-time saves list with 237. He had two saves in the 2003 World Series for the victorious Marlins.
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03-28-2007, 03:59 PM
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| | Valid Victorian
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| Don't hack people with machetes or pour gas on them. | |
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03-28-2007, 04:28 PM
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| | 3/15/07-6/2/08
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: East Tennessee
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| Crazy story | |
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03-29-2007, 01:39 PM
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| | I like metal
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: MLK and Central-Chattown
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Originally Posted by justingroves  Don't hack people with machetes or pour gas on them. | Exactly what I was thinking
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03-29-2007, 02:09 PM
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| | VN GURU
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| Aren't closers supposed to put out fires? | 
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03-29-2007, 02:16 PM
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| | VN GURU
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Originally Posted by GAVol The funniest thing I heard last night was when someone on TV referred to Urbina as FREE AGENT, Ugueth Urbina.
Right about now, I am a more in demand free agent than Urbina is. | I believe Rae Carruth is also a free agent. | |
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03-29-2007, 04:21 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Knoxville
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Originally Posted by hatvol96 I believe Rae Carruth is also a free agent. | Did he get convicted? I honestly can't remember. | |
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03-29-2007, 04:23 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Originally Posted by utvol0427 Did he get convicted? I honestly can't remember. | Yes. I believe Rae is serving a life sentence. Can't remember whether or not he has a possibility of parole. | |
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03-29-2007, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by hatvol96 Yes. I believe Rae is serving a life sentence. Can't remember whether or not he has a possibility of parole. | Gracias | |
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