Black seeks change in prison, term [NC Dem Jim Black]

News & Observer Under the Dome ^ | June 11, 2009 | bkrueger

[MitchellC]

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.

[MitchellC]

attorneys for Black, a Mecklenburg County Democrat, has asked Obama to commute his federal prison sentence

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘Whitey’s Fault.’

Oh, wait, Black IS white. So, it’s his fault, for sure. ;)

Besides, 0bama’s too busy pardoning Terrorists to be bothered with this shiite.

[lafroste]

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

Gee, well I guess he should have not broken the law, Let him rot.