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Springfield man gets 14 years in church arson

Fire set to protest Obama election

By Milton J. Valencia

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 22, 2011

One of the three men convicted of setting fire to a predominantly black church in Springfield to protest the historic election of President Barack Obama in 2008 was sentenced today to nearly 14 years in prison. Michael Jacques, 27, of Springfield, will also have to serve four years of supervised probation once he is released, and must pay nearly $1.6 million in restitution, including $123,570 to the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, the church he and two other men torched in 2008.

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