Cross burner gets year in prison (UALR Public Radio) - A man has been sentenced to a year in prison in a plot to run a white woman and her three biracial children out of a small town by burning a cross in her yard.
Dustin I. Nix is one of five men convicted in the June 2008 cross burning in the nearly all- white southwestern Arkansas town of Donaldson.

Nix admitted helping stick a makeshift wooden cross in Loretta Marie Slaughter-Shirah's yard while her three young children were inside the nearby house.

U.S. District Judge Robert Dawson took into consideration Nix's cooperation with authorities in imposing the sentence, which also includes three years of supervised release and a $5,000 fine.

Others involved in the plot have entered guilty pleas and await sentencing.

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