Copeland Lawyer Trying to Avoid Prison

Bryan White, Al Copeland's corporate attorney that pleaded guilty in the Bodenheimer corruption case, is asking the Federal court to place him in a halfway house or give him home incarceration, reports The Times-Picayune.

Prosecutors immediately opposed White's request to avoid prison, indicating that a plea agreement both sides signed in February binds White to serve his recommended sentence of one year and a day in a federal penitentiary.

Posted by AJR at May 21, 2003 07:42 AM