Milton C. Grimes, a longtime Los Angeles attorney, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $7 million in restitution for a case of tax evasion spanning more than two decades.

William Grimes, the Los Angeles attorney who won a $3.8 million civil claim on behalf of police brutality victim Rodney King in 1994, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for failing to pay over $2.

Milton C. Grimes, an attorney best known for representing African-American activist and police brutality victim Rodney King in a high-profile civil suit against the City of Los Angeles in 1994, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for failing to pay more than $7.

Milton Grimes pleaded guilty to one federal count of tax evasion, resolving allegations that the lawyer failed to pay taxes for nearly a decade.