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DATE: THURSDAY, March 28, 1991                   TAG: 9103280487
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

BARRY PROSECUTORS DENY JUDGE BIASED

Prosecutors are disputing a defense claim that former Mayor Marion Barry's cocaine conviction and sentence were based on insufficient evidence and bias.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson applied a "careful, evenhanded and balanced approach to sentencing that refutes [Barry's] present claim of judicial bias," U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens argued in documents filed Wednesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

In the appeal filed last month, defense attorney Kenneth Mundy asked that Barry's six-month prison sentence for cocaine possession be overturned, saying comments the judge made after the trial showed bias against the former mayor.

-Associated Press 


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