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James Brown: Concurrent Terms

Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 9 March 1989

SOUL SINGER James Brown has received a second six-year prison sentence. The sentence will run concurrently with the six-year term Brown is already serving at the South Carolina State Park Correctional Center. Appearing in an Augusta, Georgia, courtroom in late January, he pleaded guilty to a number of weapons and traffic misdemeanors. He was also ordered to pay a $1000 fine.

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