William Corbett was sentenced Thursday to 3 1/2 years in prison on his conviction of luring a minor for sexual exploitation.
Police said Corbett, 52, an unsuccessful legislative candidate in 1982 and the son of a former Tucson mayor, engaged in several sexually explicit Internet conversations with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl.
He arranged to meet with the girl for sex last November, but when he showed up to meet her, he learned the person on the other end of the conversations was not a 14-year-old girl but a Tucson Police Department detective.
Corbett still faces a second trial on unrelated child-molestation charges. Before his conviction for luring, Corbett was acquitted by a different jury on three charges of having inappropriately touched an 8-year-old girl in a pool. She is now 18. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on two child-molestation charges.
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In the current case, Pima County Superior Court Judge Charles S. Sabalos said the 250 days Corbett already has spent in the Pima County jail will be credited toward his sentence.
When he is released, Corbett must register as a sex offender.
The retrial on the other charges is scheduled to begin Aug. 1.
Sabalos has said he will allow child pornography discovered on Corbett's computers to be used as evidence in the upcoming trial, along with an allegation that Corbett admitted in an Internet chat to molesting a relative.
