Former Northeast Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown files 76-page appeal

Jacksonville, FL — Former Congresswoman Corrine Brown is asking a federal appeals court to throw out her conviction and prison sentence.

In a 76 page document filed Thursday in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Brown’s defense “..respectfully requests this Honorable Court vacate the judgement, sentence and forfeiture judgement in her case..”

The appeal of Browns conviction on 18 federal counts is based on the dismissal of a juror who made comments about a “higher being” and “the Holy Spirit”. On page 36 of the appeal, Brown’s attorneys argue the juror “..was not interfering with or disrupting the deliberations of the other jurors, but who on two occasions over the course of two days of jury deliberations stated to other jurors that he felt that the holy spirit had told him that Congresswoman Brown was not guilty.”

Corrine Brown is currently serving a 5 year prison sentence in a low security federal facility in Central Florida for role in the running of a bogus children’s charity. Her former Chief of Staff Ronnie Simmons and Carla Wiley the former President of One Door for Education, are also serving federal sentences.

COMPLETE RECAP OF THE TRIAL AND SENTENCING OF FORMER NORTHEAST FLORIDA CONGRESSWOMAN CORRINE BROWN.