Self-help guru James Arthur Ray was sentenced Friday to two years in prison in the case of the sweat-lodge deaths two years ago of three people who attended his annual Spiritual Warrior retreat in Sedona. Supporters asked for probation for the three convictions of negligent homicide, but relatives of victims requested the maximum prison sentence of over nine years in prison, saying Ray, 53, an Oprah-endorsed self-help expert who continued operating James Ray International after the deaths, had done little to redeem himself. "My heart's been ripped out. My life has been blown apart, and the pieces are yet to land,...
- 11/18/2011
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
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