Associated Press ROCHESTER, Minn. - A North Dakota woman convicted of stalking a woman because she is Muslim must pay $3,000 in fines and do 200 hours of community work service.
Olmsted County Judge Kevin Lund also sentenced 47-year-old Patricia Stockwell on Friday to two years of probation and ordered her to write an apology to the victim. If Stockwell fails to the meet the conditions, she will serve one year in jail.
Stockwell once lived in Rochester but now lives in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
A jury convicted her in September 2006 of stalking Madina Hassan and found it was because of Hassan's religion.
Lund sentenced Stockwell after denying her attorney's motions for a new trial and a judgment of acquittal. Stockwell's attorney, Frederick Goetz of Minneapolis, says he will appeal.
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