TACOMA — Prosecutors have asked the judge who sentenced former NBA SuperSonics star Shawn Kemp to 30 days of home monitoring and 240 hours of community service to reconsider part of his punishment, pointing out that home confinement is not available to people convicted of a violent crime.

Attorneys for Kemp disagree. In a legal response filed Tuesday, Tim Leary said Pierce County Superior Court Judge Michael Schwartz had given Kemp zero time in custody, and the home monitoring time and community service were just obligations of the 12 months of community custody Schwartz had ordered.

Schwartz is expected to take up the issue at a hearing Sept. 9.

Kemp pleaded guilty to second-degree assault for firing a revolver at a Toyota 4Runner outside the Tacoma Mall occupied by two men who had bro

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