Lawyer: Steroids Case Doesn't Warrant Prison Time

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COLUMBIA - A former West Columbia, S.C., doctor scheduled to be sentenced next week for conspiring to illegally prescribe steroids to NFL players shouldn't receive any federal prison time, according to court papers filed by his lawyer.

In a motion filed Tuesday, federal public defender Allen Burnside asked the court to reject a request by prosecutors to give James Shortt a sentence longer than the maximum recommended sentence of six months.

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Lawyer: Steroids Case Doesn't Warrant Prison Time

Shortt, 59, should be sentenced at the "bottom of the sentencing range" - from zero to six months - proposed by the U.S. Pro...

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