Hello All Y'awl also too! I'm new to Free Republic, this will be my first post.
Henchman, News2 reported Fowler may get emergency furlough.
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http://www.wbrz.com/stories/122902/new_jerryfowl.shtml )
Jerry Fowler may get emergency furlough
Authorities still searching for his wife, Mari Ann
Ken Pastorick
WBRZ Reporter
An attorney for Jerry Fowler says the former elections commissioner could be released from prison on an emergency furlough.
Former elections commissioner Jerry Fowler
While Fowler is in jail, authorities are searching for his wife, Mari Ann Fowler. She was abducted Christmas Eve from a sandwich shop in Port Allen.
Fowler is serving five years in a Beaumont federal prison for accepting kickbacks from voting-machine contractors.
Today attorney Richard Crane said Fowler is eligible for an emergency furlough, though he admits the move is not a foregone conclusion
"He's eligible for a furlough if there's a family crisis... which certainly this would qualify for," says Crane. "But this is a very unusual situation. Typically ... the Bureau of Prisons allows an inmate to leave the prison to attend a funeral of a close relative, and this situation is totally different. They might also allow somebody to leave for a deathbed visit, but again that doesn't really apply in this case."
Crane says he hasn't spoken to Fowler since last month. He also says the decision to permit an emergency furlough would be the warden's.
End of my 1st post-Here geauxs, I hope this works....
Thanks for the update. Hope his wife is OK and he gets to stay in prison. Does he get credit for time served if he is out while he looks for his wife? The FBI would look for him but they seem to be looking for 5 Arab men (profiling again) who slipped past their noses.