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Re: Black seeks change in prison, term

Kingixolib — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:53:44 -0400

He is where he belongs.... if he drops dead and rots in there then so be it.

Re: Black seeks change in prison, term

BitterEXdemocrat — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:37:49 -0400

Sorry he's in poor health, but Im SURE they have doctors on staff to give better care than non criminals get...

Re: Black seeks change in prison, term

PoliticalJunkie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:25:59 -0400

Unless he starts naming names and putting the rest of his Democrat cronies in jail he needs to stay right where he is.

He owes society - the citizens of NC - another 3 years.

Black seeks change in prison, term

bkrueger — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:12:51 -0400

Former House Speaker Jim Black is asking President Barack Obama for some help.

WRAL-TV has reported that attorneys for Black, a Mecklenburg County Democrat, has asked Obama to commute his federal prison sentence or let him serve the remainder of his five-year sentence in North Carolina or South Carolina.

Black is in a federal prison in Pennsylvania after being convicted in 2007 on a corruption charge.

The television station quoted Whit Powell, an attorney for Black, saying that the former lawmaker is in poor health and that his wife has Lou Gehrig's disease.