NATION : Ex-Judge Out of Halfway House
Former Federal Judge Walter L. Nixon Jr. left a halfway house today, after serving 20 months of a five-year prison term for perjury and 18 days after the Senate removed him from office.
“He was released on parole. He signed out at 8:15 a.m.,” said Robert English, community corrections manager in New Orleans for the federal Bureau of Prisons.
A federal jury convicted Nixon in 1986 of lying to a federal grand jury when he denied discussing a marijuana case with a district attorney. He began serving his prison term March 23, 1988, nearly two years after being sentenced. The Senate voted Nov. 3 to remove him from office, stripping him of his title of U.S. district judge and $89,500 salary.
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