The date of the official sentencing has not been set.
After the official sentence was announced, the judge disclosed Mr. Khadr's eight-year plea agreement.
Tabatabaei claims he has seen the text of the verdict, but is still waiting for the official sentencing.
The highest-ranking official sentenced Tuesday was Gao Weizhong, the head of the construction authority in the district where the fire took place.
No official sentenced in what was arguably Brazil's largest corruption scandal has gone to jail, despite Prosecutor General Roberto Gurgel's contention that they should have begun serving their sentences immediately after the high court announced them in November.
The official sentencing guidelines for judges since 2008 have made clear that their "starting point for the lowest level of knife possession amongst adults should be 12 weeks' custody".
Without further delay, please enjoy the candidates for the first official Sentence of the Week of 2012: A.... a joke that fails is a form of madness... (Adam Phillips, "Promises, Promises") B. Michael Jackson represented the ecstatic and the untouchable; Whitney Houston was always human, along every axis.
A20 Ex-Union Official Sentenced The former political director of the Teamsters union, Bill Hamilton, was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of taking part in a scheme to siphon union money into the 1996 campaign of the Teamsters' former president, Ron Carey.
Stephen Kinzer (NYT) FRANCE: PAPON PLEA REJECTED President Jacques Chirac has denied a plea for a pardon on medical grounds from Maurice Papon, 89, the former Vichy official sentenced to 10 years in 1998 for his role in helping to deport thousands of Jews to Nazi death camps.
"At the time the judge had specified a maximum of 90 days' in jail, and after 42 days he was released — all the experts concluded he wasn't dangerous," Mr. Kiejman said, adding that the judge reneged on his agreement to set him free after that stay, which was for psychiatric evaluation, and planned to imprison him again at his official sentencing.
