Former Calif. Sheriff Seeks Revised Prison Sentence

His attorneys contend that Carona's conduct amounted to simply not disclosing gifts but did not amount to bribery.

Orange County's former sheriff is waging a battle to be released from federal prison, where he is serving time for witness tampering in a corruption case that exposed wrongdoing in the state's second-largest sheriff's department, the Los Angeles Times reports.

On Monday, a federal judge heard arguments on whether to resentence Michael S. Carona, once a rising political star before he was indicted in late 2007 in a sprawling corruption case.

Carona's attorneys argued that the 66-month sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford on the one witness-tampering charge on which he was convicted should be adjusted based on changes in the law. About one year after Carona's sentencing, the Supreme Court narrowed a definition of corruption to just bribes and kickbacks.

His attorneys contend that Carona's conduct amounted to simply not disclosing gifts but did not amount to bribery.

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