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Senator Ted Stevens not (yet) disenfranchised

By Douglas A. Berman

This article in the Anchorage Daily News, headlined "Stevens keeps right to vote until sentencing," keeps up with the latest legal news surrounding Senator Ted Stevens: Sen. Ted Stevens gets to vote in next Tuesday's election despite being found guilty of seven federal felonies because his conviction won't be final until he's sentenced, the state Department of Law decided late Wednesday. Alaska law bars felons convicted of crimes involving "moral turpitude" from voting for the duration of their sentence, including any probation period. Stevens' failure to report gifts is a Class D felony under federal law and constitutes such a crime because it involves willful fraud, said an opinion by Michael Barnhill, a senior assistant attorney general with the state...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 30, 2008 (boomark / email).