Former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers was sentenced to 37 months in jail yesterday. For that, she is livid; surprise, surprise. Now she wants to withdraw her guilty plea.
Fat chance, say most legal experts. She signed an plea bargained agreement which makes any effort to rescind her guilty plea virtually impossible. Then the former Councilwoman attempted to play off her role as wife and mother as reason for leniency.
No opportunity of portraying herself as the offended party will ever escape Ms. Conyers. "What have my kids done to deserve this?". she laments. "My husband is an older man," she said as well. But what do either of those points have to do with the facts of the matter? If she did the crime, she's got to do the time. There may be a lesson in that for her kids. As for her husband, the longtime Congressman from Detroit, John Conyers, well. it's doubtful that he wants to do anything except get all the sideshow surrounding his wife behind him. He surely doesn't need her to hold his hand while he tries to hold all those evil Republicans at bay in Washington.
You get what you pay for, Ms. Conyers. Or in this case, what you were paid for. Treat yourself to a new toothbrush.
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