Heene Couple Gets Jail for Balloon Hoax
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Richard Heene Gets 90 Days Jail Time, Mayumi Heene Must Serve 20 Days
By SHEILA MARIKAR
Dec. 23, 2009
Richard Heene and Mayumi Heene, the parents behind the balloon boy hoax, will soon float away to jail.
Today, Larimer County, Colo. Judge Stephen Schapanski sentenced the couple behind one of the year's biggest media stunts to a total of 110 days jail and eight years probation. He also prohibited the couple from making any money off the balloon boy fiasco during that time.
Schapanski stated that Richard Heene must spend 30 days in jail beginning Jan. 11, 2010. The remaining 60 days of his 90-day sentence may be carried out under "work release," meaning he can work during the day and spend nights in prison.
"This will be supervised probation," Schapanski said about that part of the sentence. "The terms and conditions will be that Mr. Heene is in fact prohibited from receiving any form of financial benefit -- whether it be media, a book, an article he writes -- anything of that kind that stems from this incident."
The judge also ruled that Richard Heene must write a letter of apology to the community and public service agencies that were roped into the Oct. 15 stunt, perform 100 hours of community service and submit to random drug or alcohol testing.

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>"The Heenes' lawyers had hoped for leniency by entering a new version of the insanity plea, "guilty by reason of reality television."
Explaining his motives behind the balloon hoax in open court, Mr. Heene haltingly told the judge, "I did it... for the show.""<
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/judge-calls-balloon-dad-f_b_402619.html
Has reality TV
Edited 12/29/2009 9:31 am ET by noelani2
Nadya Suleman (Octomom) didn’t commit a crime.
In memory, Stephen Michael, 1983-2009
Edited 12/29/2009 9:25 am ET by noelani2
Edited 12/29/2009 9:27 am ET by noelani2
>>Are you saying that Nadya Suleman got pregnant with octuplets by accident?<<
No, I did not say that at all.
Edited 12/29/2009 9:29 am ET by noelani2
I was suprised they had such little jail time,
I also thought the actual jail time would/should have been longer.
I wish the dad would have thought of another way to bring media hype to his work. Maybe doing something truly brilliant would have worked. It's a terrible thing to involve children in deception.
I hope that besides time spent in jail, he gets a new outlook on life.
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