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Two sentenced for Hudson mosque defacing
Mar 01, 2011 4:40 pm
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Two of three men on trial for defacing a Hudson mosque last September were sentenced to jail time on March 1 in city court. Photo from YNN."]
[/caption]The Mid Hudson News Network reports that on March 1, two of three men involved in spray painting a City of Hudson mosque last year were sentenced in city court. Christopher Osborne, charged with a felony, was sentenced to six months in jail and five years probation by Columbia County Court Judge Jonathan Nichols. A second man, James Glover III, charged with two misdemeanors, was given 60 days in the county jail. At the time of the September incident where a racial slur was painted on a wall of the Hudson Islamic Center, authorities labeled it a hate crime.
[/caption]The Mid Hudson News Network reports that on March 1, two of three men involved in spray painting a City of Hudson mosque last year were sentenced in city court. Christopher Osborne, charged with a felony, was sentenced to six months in jail and five years probation by Columbia County Court Judge Jonathan Nichols. A second man, James Glover III, charged with two misdemeanors, was given 60 days in the county jail. At the time of the September incident where a racial slur was painted on a wall of the Hudson Islamic Center, authorities labeled it a hate crime.