State prosecutors urge court to reject motion for Mike Hubbard's early release

State prosecutors responded Wednesday to former Speaker of the Alabama House Mike Hubbard’s (R) request for an early release, urging the Lee County Circuit Court to reject the request because Hubbard, they said, “offers no persuasive reason why he should serve less than half the sentence this Court ordered just ten months ago.”

Hubbard is imprisoned at Limestone Correctional Facility, where he’s been held since exhausting his appeals in late August 2020. Originally convicted of 12 felony ethics charges and sentenced to four years in prison, the Alabama Supreme Court reviewed and reduced his felony counts to six, leaving a four-year sentence.

Lee County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Walker III, the judge who originally sentenced Hubbard to those four years, later reduced his sentence to two years in November 2020.

With more than half of his sentence remaining, Hubbard’s legal team filed a motion on Sept. 10 requesting an early release.

Read more: https://www.alreporter.com/2021/09/17/state-prosecutors-urge-court-to-reject-motion-for-mike-hubbards-early-release/
(Alabama Political Reporter)