Black sentencing set

Submitted by bkrueger on July 17, 2007 - 1:23pm.
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Former House Speaker Jim Black is scheduled to be sentenced on state charges July 31.

The sentencing is set for 9:30 a.m., Wake prosecutor David Sherlin says.

Black is to be sentenced on felony charges of bribery and obstructing justice. Black pleaded guilty to the state charges in February.

He faces anywhere from probation to 22 months in prison on the two state charges.

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