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COMES NOW Defendant Paul S. Minor and moves the Honorable Court for a furlough
to be with his parents and family for Christmas. As grounds for this motion Defendant Minor
1. Defendant Minor was transferred from the federal prison camp in Pensacola,
Florida to the Madison County Detention Center to await resentencing on January 20, 2010. As
the Court is aware, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed Defendant Minor’s 18
U.S.C. § 666 federal bribery convictions on December 11, 2009. United States v. Whitfield, 590
F.3d 325 (5thCir. 2009). As part of the resentencing proceedings, Defendant Minor also has a
motion to vacate his conviction and sentence on the remaining charges in light of the Supreme
2. Defendant Minor has been incarcerated for almost four years with no overnight
furlough. During his incarceration Defendant Minor has had one brief daytime guard
accompanied visit with his wife Sylvia as she was in the last days of her battle with cancer.
4. Defendant Minor’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Minor, live only twenty minutes
from the Madison County Detention Center in Canton, Mississippi. Defendant Minor requests
that his family be allowed to pick him up at the detention center and return him at an appointed
time.
5. There is no risk that Defendant Minor will flee; in fact, Defendant Minor is
awaiting resentencing and the court’s ruling on his motion to vacate the his sentence and
conviction.
WHEREFORE, Defendant Minor respectfully moves this Honorable Court to grant him a
furlough to be with his parents and family at his parents’ home during Christmas. Specifically,
Defendant Minor respectfully moves that his family be allowed to pick him up at the Madison
County Detention Center Christmas Eve morning and return him to the detention center at an
appointed time on December 26, 2010. Alternatively, Defendant Minor moves that his family be
allowed to pick him up at an appointed time on Christmas day and return him to the Madison
Respectfully Submitted,
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Theodore B. Olson,
admitted pro hac vice
David Debold,
admitted pro hac vice
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
1050 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036
Office: 202-955-8500
Fax: 202-467-0539
email: TOlson@gibsondunn.com
email: DDebold@gibsondunn.com
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I, Hiram C. Eastland, Jr., do hereby certify that I have this day served counsel opposite
with the above and foregoing Entry of Appearance via the Court’s ECF filing system which sent
notification of this filing to:
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
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ORDER
with his family during Christmas, and any opposition thereto, the Court hereby ORDERS that
Defendant Minor’s family may pick Defendant Minor up at the Madison County
Detention Center at _____ on December, ____, 2010, and must return him to the detention center
SO ORDERED.
Henry T. Wingate
United States District Court Judge
PREPARED BY: