Kohring case, the lawyer makes the Leniency Notice
Sentenced Vic Kohring former legislator’s lawyer, John Henry Browne, said eight months in prison would be a just punishment.
Kohring find next week, how long will it take, and Browne, a case of clemency.
Last fall, a jury convicted Kohring of conspiracy, attempted blackmail and corruption.
Thursday is the third former Alaska legislator condemned as part of an investigation by the Confederation of government and corruption.
Prosecutors believe five years is the sentence.
But the defense said would be “Extreme” and “disproportionate”.
During the research, clemency, Kohring’s lawyer, the Court said that the same set of Tom Anderson.
And Anderson’s contraventions, “said Browne, was worse than Kohring’s: Anderson was sentenced to seven account in a scheme to collect nearly $ 26000
Browne stressed its number, with the game six years won Pete Kott, was sentenced to three points and where nearly $ 9000, so that a new investigation into the choice of pay, and a promise of a future job.
Kohring similar condemnation, “said Browne, was” exaggerated “.
Prosecutors and defence lawyers did not exceed the seriousness of the actions Kohring.
The defence argued that the exchange was $ 1000 cash caught FBI surveillance cameras, jurors have condemned Kohring, nothing more.
“He was not conscious of breaking the law,” Browne wrote in his sentencing memorandum. “… But it controls misunderstood the law and mistakenly believed he could gifts of friends during his legislative duties. ”
And, as with friends, Browne said Bill Allen and Rick Smith was the “wrong people” for Kohring to accept.
Then paste it all, and Browne, M. Kohring’s sentence should be eight months behind bars, and this 8-month sentence.
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