Copeland Attorney's Plea for Leniency Unsuccessful

The Times-Picayune reports that Bryan White's plea to be placed in a halfway house or sentenced to home incarceration was unsuccessful. White was sentenced to a year and one day in federal prison as a result of his guilty plea to a charge of misprision of a felony. "A lawyer too weak to resist a corrupt judge is as bad and as poisonous to the system of justice as is the corrupt judge," Eastern District Judge Feldman told White.

Corrupt judges and lawyers "offend the very soul of our Constitution, in my opinion," he said. "This is not an easy day for the court."

Posted by AJR at May 22, 2003 07:26 AM