Anthony Marshall’s Friends Petition the Court for Shortest Possible Prison Sentence

Anthony Marshall, convicted of grand larceny and fraud, could be sentenced to as little as one year and as much as 25 years in prison.  The prosecution has portrayed Marshall as a criminal deserving of punishment.  Close friends and celebrities, however, have sent letters to the court describing Marshall as a frail, humiliated, churchgoing man.  

Marshall is 85 years old. Marshall’s friends told the court that the maximum possible sentence would be a death sentence for Marshall and that the humiliation of the trial was punishment enough.

Mallory Simon and Beth Karas, Celebrities plead for Brooke Astor’s son to be spared prison term, CNN, Dec. 18, 2009.