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Friday, April 13, 2007

Ind. Courts - "Gary attorney could get sentence next month"

Joe Carlson of the NWI Times reports today in a story that begins:

Disgraced Gary attorney Jerry Jarrett has a May court date in Fort Wayne to receive a prison sentence for a 2004 money laundering conviction.

But he is hoping to defer that date even longer through post-trial motions that he claims could invalidate the conviction against him. Jarrett faces a maximum penalty of more than five years in prison and $92,000 in fines.

Jarrett appealed his conviction all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming he was the victim of vindictive prosecution. The high court declined in November to hear his case.

In December 2004, Jarrett was convicted of accepting $20,000 in 1999 in exchange for laundering $92,000 in profits from two drug dealers, Carlos Ripoll and Gregory Goode.

The dealers said Jarrett disguised the payments as investments in a novelty business Jarrett created that purportedly sold products to left-handed people.

See earlier ILB entries here and here.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 13, 2007 08:08 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts