Posted on 03/03/2004 7:15:10 PM PST by Fizzie
Janklow says he won't do community service Updated: 03-03-2004 07:52:18 AM
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Former South Dakota governor and congressman Bill Janklow is days away from being able to get out of jail for up to ten hours a day for community service.
But he says he doesn't plan to do it.
Judge Rodney Steele denied Janklow's request to set him free until the state Supreme Court hears his appeal.
As part of a 100-day jail sentence, Steele urged Janklow to speak to students and community groups about the legislative process and other topics he knows about.
According to court services, Janklow has decided not to do community service.
A Moody County jury convicted Janklow of manslaughter, reckless driving, speeding and running a stop sign for an August accident that killed Randy Scott of Hardwick, Minnesota.
Hmm, one wonders if Janklow's fellow prison mates are aware that he is allegedly censured from practicing law on the Rosebud Indian reservation due to skipping out on charges of raping his 15-year-old babysitter in 1967? And that the victim was befriended by an alleged undercover FBI agent, and later found dead several hundred miles from home before she could testify against her alleged attacker?
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