Kumari Fulbright, the former "beauty queen" and law student, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to
commit kidnapping after the bizarre kidnapping and torture of her
ex-boyfriend two years ago, was sentenced to two years in prison and six months probation by a Pima County Superior Court judge this morning.
The charges stem from a 2007 incident, where prosecutors say
Fulbright and two other men held her ex-boyfriend hostage for about 10
hours, while robbing and torturing him.
According to prosecutors, Fulbright was angry about some jewelry she
believed the ex-boyfriend stole from her to pay a drug debt, and in the
course of torturing him, she stuck a butcher's knife in his ear and bit
him several times.
Fulbright's case received a lot of media attention because, aside
from being a promising law student charged with kidnapping, she looks
like a Gremlin in her mug shot.
In November, Fulbright tried to have her trial venue moved because of
the intense media coverage of the case, but her request was denied.
