Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
star Geoffrey Paschel has been sentenced to 18 years in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of kidnapping and assaulting his ex-fiancée, Knox County Office of the District Attorney General Charme Allen said in a press release on Friday.In October, Paschel was convicted of aggravated kidnapping, domestic assault, and interference with emergency calls in Knox County.
On Friday, he was sentenced.«Geoffrey Ian Paschel, 44, was convicted of Aggravated Kidnapping, Domestic Assault, and Interference with Emergency Calls.
Judge Kyle Hixson ordered Paschel to serve eighteen years in prison without the possibility of parole,» the press release states.Paschel's prior convictions — which include possession with intent to sell a controlled substance and two federal drug trafficking charges — was factored in to his sentencing.«At a sentencing hearing today, prosecutors successfully argued that Paschel is a Range II Offender based on convictions out of Blount County for Possession with Intent to Sell a Schedule I Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Sell Schedule II Cocaine and two federal drug trafficking convictions out of the Eastern District of Texas,» the press release states. «Prosecutors also put on proof from this victim and Paschel’s ex-wife about several previous incidents of domestic violence committed by Paschel.
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