Smuggler Sentenced to Home Detention
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A lawyer who pleaded guilty to helping smuggle counterfeit computer programs into the United States was sentenced Monday to six months of home detention, instead of prison, because he is a heart transplant recipient.
The federal court judge cited a letter from Lawrence S. Boyle’s physician saying that imprisonment could trigger rejection of his new heart.
Boyle, 54, of Westminster pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to smuggle 15,000 counterfeit Microsoft programs from Hong Kong to Los Angeles.
Boyle, a former Long Beach police officer and former deputy district attorney, told the judge Monday that he deeply regretted his conduct.
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