Black seeks change in prison, term

Submitted by bkrueger on June 11, 2009 - 9:12am.
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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.

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Re: Black seeks change in prison, term

Submitted by Kingixolib on June 11, 2009 - 12:53pm.

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

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Re: Black seeks change in prison, term

Submitted by BitterEXdemocrat on June 11, 2009 - 10:37am.

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

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Re: Black seeks change in prison, term

Submitted by PoliticalJunkie on June 11, 2009 - 9:25am.

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.

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