Apr 04 2008
Harris Says Prosecutors Lack Evidence Against Wright
Prosecutors brought fraud charges against former Rep. Thomas Wright without any legitimate evidence to prove their case, his attorney said today, comparing his client’s case to the biblical fight between David and Goliath. “Sometimes, David wins,” attorney Douglas Harris said during his closing arguments at Wright’s criminal trial.The Wilmington Democrat is charged with pocketing $8,900 in donations to his Community’s Health Foundation and fraudulently obtaining a $150,000 loan to buy a building for a museum to commemorate Wilmington’s 1898 race riots. He could be sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison if convicted on four felony counts of fraud.
No, no evidence whatsoever. That is exactly why the State House voted almost unanimously, with only four dissenters, for the first time in over 120 years to expel a state legislator from the General Assembly. Harris is attempting to try Wright in the media, but he is only succeeding in making himself out to be a fool. What the man ought to be doing is making arrangements for additional accommodations in Jim Black’s jail cell.
