Former San Diego Mayor Filner charged with false imprisonment, battery (update - pleads guilty) [View all]

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By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, October 15, 11:07 AM

SAN DIEGO — The California attorney general’s office has charged former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner with felony false imprisonment and two misdemeanor counts of battery.

The charges filed Tuesday come just months after allegations of sexual harassment drove Filner to resign.

The criminal case names three Jane Does as victims.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/former-san-diego-mayor-filner-charged-with-false-imprisonment-battery/2013/10/15/d6d676d6-35b3-11e3-89db-8002ba99b894_story.html

SAN DIEGO — Bob Filner, the former San Diego mayor forced out of office in a storm of sexual harassment allegations, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a series of false imprisonment and battery charges involving three women, according to the state attorney general.

The California attorney general’s office said that Mr. Filner, who resigned in August with a defiant speech denying that he had violated the law and saying he had been the victim of a “lynch mob,” had been charged with one felony count of false imprisonment by violence, fraud, menace and deceit, and two misdemeanor counts of battery.

Under the terms of a plea bargain announced Tuesday morning, Mr. Filner was to serve three years of probation and to undergo treatment at the directive of a mental health professional. Under the probation, Mr. Filner agreed to home confinement for three months. He will not be permitted to serve on a jury or own a firearm during the course of his probation.

If he violates those conditions, he will be jailed for six months. He could have been sentenced to three years in prison for the felony and one year in county jail for each of the misdemeanors. Sentencing will take place on Dec. 9.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/us/criminal-charges-for-bob-filner-former-san-diego-mayor.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1381861192-pmtbyz8vWeZH7IvtUJjSyw