10/27/09

BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ A former state prison guard has been
sentenced to one to three years in prison for having sexual contact
with a female inmate.

District Judge Ronald Wilper sentenced Timothy R. Gilligan, of
Boise, on Tuesday.

The 28-year-old Gilligan was a wide receiver for the Boise State
football team between 2000 and 2003 and also played in the Canadian
Football League.

He was originally charged with two counts of having sexual
contact with a female inmate in 2007 but pleaded guilty to burglary
_ a crime technically committed when someone enters a building with
the intent to commit a felony.

Gilligan admitted to Wilper earlier this year that he twice
entered the Idaho Maximum Security Institution with the intent of
having sexual contact with a female inmate.

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