From Michael Rubinkam's NBC NEWS report on Scott Ritter's conviction "Ex-UN inspector gets prison in Pa. sex case:"
But a northeastern Pennsylvania jury convicted Ritter in April. On Wednesday, a Monroe County judge sentenced him to 18 months to 66 months in state prison.
Ritter was taken into custody immediately.
Ritter was one of the U.N.'s chief weapons inspectors in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.
Ritter had asked for a new trial Wednesday, basing his request on an appeals court ruling in New York that records from two previous incidents in that state in 2001 should not have been unsealed and given to prosecutors in Pennsylvania to be used at his trial. Defense attorney Gary Kohlman argued the New York ruling entitled Ritter to a new trial because prosecutors based much of their strategy on the argument that Ritter had a history of illicit online sex.
