Sixth-degree larceny is a misdemeanor that carries up to a three-month sentence and/or a $500 fine.

Previously, anyone deemed to have insulted the head of state faced a maximum suspended three-month sentence.

On 3 October 2006, he was given a three-month probationary sentence and fined €7,500 for this offence.

The other two died of starvation in an underground chamber where he left them while serving a three-month sentence for car theft.

Shaw, fined $345, was handed a three-month suspended sentence and became a minor folk hero in America.

Another had killed his wife by deliberately pushing her under a passing carriage and received a three-month sentence.

On 21 June 2006 Flosse was convicted of corruption and given a three-month suspended sentence.

Anderson, 41, served a three-month sentence after pleading guilty in 2005 to distributing steroids and to money laundering.

Things were already beginning to get to me, and I had only served a few days of my three-month sentence.

Both soldiers were demoted one rank and given three-month suspended sentences.