SOUTHLAND : Lewis Pleads Not Guilty to Forgery
Assemblyman John R. Lewis (R-Orange) pleaded not guilty today to a single felony charge of forging former President Ronald Reagan’s name on campaign letters mailed to thousands of California voters in 1986.
Lewis’ plea, in proceedings that took less than a minute, came after nearly three months of legal maneuvering by his lawyers, who had won repeated postponement of the assemblyman’s arraignment as they sought to have the grand jury indictment against him dismissed.
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James I. Morris ordered Lewis to return to court May 10.
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