Retired Philadelphia Traffic Court Judge Thomasine Tynes will serve two years in federal prison for perjury in front of the grand jury that was investigating ticket-fixing in her court, under a sentence handed down by a federal judge Thursday.

She was the second of several defendants to be sentenced this week after a trial this summer on charges related to the ticket-fixing scandal. Tynes was convicted on two counts of perjury and acquitted on all other charges.

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