Black heading back to court for resentencing hearing
Posted June 6, 2011 5:19 pm.
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Conrad Black will be back in court June 24 for a resentencing hearing, but new documents dispute his defence attorneys’ claims that Black was a model prisoner.
Black’s defence team said he spent his time “humbly and quietly in Colson Prison teaching others to read.”
But an affidavit to be presented before Judge Amy St. Eve quotes a manager at the Florida facility as saying Black was an uninterested mentor who projected the attitude that he was better than others staff and students alike.
The filing said Black rarely showed up to teach other students because he elected to study piano instead.
The U.S. attorney wants Black’s original sentence of six-and-a-half years to be reimposed.
Black was freed on bail in 2010 while he appealed his conviction for defrauding investors.