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RON ISLEY PRISON SENTENCE UPHELD: Court rejects argument that singer is too old for 37-month stint.
*At age 66 and in poor health after suffering a minor stroke in 2004, an appellate court ruled that Ronald Isley must carry out his entire 37-month federal prison sentence for tax evasion.
A three-judge panel rejected the singer's argument that the sentence is unreasonable due to his age, medical condition and lack of proof that the federal prison system can provide him adequate health care, reports the Associated Press.
The appellate court ruled that the trial judge was correct in sentencing and "best balanced the need to sanction Mr. Isley's 'pathological' tax evasion against the need to accommodate Mr. Isley's poor health."
The R&B crooner was sentenced in 2006 after being convicted of five counts of tax evasion and one count of willful failure to file a tax return. Prosecutors said Isley failed to file tax returns on many occasions over a three-year period and declared bankruptcy after the IRS seized his yacht, cars and other property in 1997.
He was discharged from bankruptcy four years later, but then did not file tax returns for the years 1997 to 2001 and in 2002 did not sign his return and failed to pay all taxes due.
As it stands now, Isley is due for release from the Terre Haute Federal Corrections Institution in Indiana sometime in April 2010.
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