Middleweight boxer Jermain Taylor (R) of the U.S. signs autographs after he was presented at a news conference in Copenhagen July 14, 2009. REUTERS/Claus Bech/Scanpix Denmark
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Former world middleweight boxing champion Jermain Taylor was given suspended sentences by an Arkansas judge on Friday and put on probation for six years, avoiding prison after pleading guilty in three separate cases.
The cases included shooting a cousin, discharging a firearm before a family at a Martin Luther King Day observance in Little Rock and striking a fellow patient at an Arkansas drug rehabilitation centre.
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