Ex-Prof Who Faked Vandalism Gets a Year
AP, Dec. 15
POMONA, Calif. — A former college professor convicted of staging a hate crime by spray-painting her own car with racist slurs was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison.
Kerri Dunn, 40, was convicted in August of filing a false police report and attempted insurance fraud, and had faced up to three years.
The visiting psychology professor at Claremont McKenna College claimed her car was targeted March 9 in a hate crime while she was speaking at a campus forum on racial tolerance.
College officials canceled classes the next day as thousands of students took part in demonstrations calling for tolerance.
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The judge who earlier had ordered Dunn to undergo psychological testing said Wednesday she has “severe mental illness,” according to a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
