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Monica Conyers gets 37-month federal sentence (and creates some great appeal issues)

By Douglas A. Berman

This Detroit News piece, which is headlined "Angry Conyers vows to appeal 37-month prison sentence," suggests a high-profile federal sentencing today a political bribery case includes some interesting in-court action.  Here are the highlights: Former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers was sentenced to 37 months in prison today, but not before controversy and confusion erupted when she announced she wanted to withdraw her guilty plea to bribery. In a loud and lengthy tirade that targeted federal prosecutors and the news media, Conyers said the court was trying to make an example of her and sentence her for crimes she did not commit. "I'm not going to be made the scapegoat for other people," Conyers told U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 10, 2010 (boomark / email).