The State - News from Aug. 8, 1985
U.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne’s lawyer has asked a federal appeals court in San Francisco to reconsider his tax-evasion convictions, saying that Claiborne relied in good faith on his tax accountant. In papers filed with the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Claiborne was portrayed as an innocent man who was “hounded, prosecuted and convicted” because he was “a judge unpopular with federal agents and prosecutors.” Claiborne, 67, is the first federal judge in this century convicted of committing felonies while in office.
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