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The cases included shooting a cousin, discharging a firearm
before a family at a Martin Luther King Day observance in Little
Rock and striking a fellow patient at an Arkansas drug
rehabilitation center.
The three cases produced nine felony charges against Taylor but
some of the charges were dropped and others consolidated in an
agreement reached with prosecutors in December.
"I just want to apologize to my state, to my kids and my cousin
and my family," Taylor was quoted in local media as saying in
court.
In addition to the probationary sentences, state circuit court
Judge Leon Johnson ordered Taylor, 37, to perform 120 hours of
community service and submit to periodic drug screening.
The state had asked Johnson to impose either a 10-year prison
sentence or a lengthy, supervised probationary term.
Taylor, whose attorneys said is insolvent, has announced his
intention to return to the ring. At an earlier hearing, the
judge permitted Taylor to leave the state to train in Florida,
provided he was supervised.
The boxer won a bronze medal in the 2000 Olympics and captured
the world middleweight title in 2005 against Bernard Hopkins.
Taylor abandoned competition in 2009 following a brain injury
sustained in the ring, but launched a comeback in 2011.
In 2015, the International Boxing Federation declared the
middleweight championship vacant when Taylor, then under arrest,
was unable to defend his title.
(Reporting by Steve Barnes; Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing
by Sandra Maler)
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