Stern Sentence

A stalker who referred to shock-jock Howard Stern as “Dead Man Walking” in letters threatening the radio personality’s life has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison. The sentence from U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan was nearly twice as much as federal sentencing guidelines called for in a case that began when Michael Lance Carvin sent four letters to Stern last spring from Las Vegas. Carvin, 44, who was convicted in 1976 of threatening the life of the president for pointing a toy gun at then-candidate Ronald Reagan, threatened Stern and his family in the letters, prosecutors said.