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AL SHARPTON SENTENCED TO TIME SERVED: Civil rights activist convicted Wednesday for disorderly conduct.

(October 13, 2008)

*The Reverend Al Sharpton was convicted last week along with seven others for disorderly conduct and blocking intersections, tunnels and bridges while leading protests against the 2006 police shooting of Sean Bell.

Criminal Court Judge Larry Stephen sentenced Sharpton and the other protesters to time served and ordered them to pay a court fee of $95.

"I am of course sympathetic to the underlying issues which gave rise to the protests and demonstrations on May 7," Stephen said, according to Newsday.

Bell, unarmed, was shot by police 50 times in his car outside a Queens, New York, strip club hours before his wedding.

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