Posted on 06/03/2009 7:01:42 PM PDT by Libloather
Mose Jefferson seeks to postpone trial
by The Associated Press
Wednesday June 03, 2009, 6:55 AM
NEW ORLEANS -- A former Louisiana congressman's brother is asking a federal judge to consider postponing his trial in a bribery case.
Mose Jefferson, whose brother is former Rep. William Jefferson, has an Aug. 10 trial date for charges he bribed a former New Orleans school board president for her support in awarding school contracts to a computer-based teaching system he helped sell.
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All four are scheduled to be arraigned Friday on the new charges. A trial for that case is scheduled to start Aug. 3, which would conflict with the bribery trial if neither is rescheduled.
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