Jurisprudence

Former University of Miami football player Martin Patton was sentenced to three years’ probation and ordered to pay $1,521 in restitution for obstructing the U.S. mail and conspiring to use a credit card to defraud. U.S. District Judge Lenore Nesbitt also assessed Patton a $50 fine.

Patton, 21, a running back, was arrested along with Solomon Moore, another former member of the Hurricane football team, last December in Miami on charges of using a misdelivered credit card to buy more than $3,000 in goods.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Martin Goldberg had said that Patton was facing up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, but recommended leniency in exchange for his cooperation and a guilty plea.