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| Ex-Prison Warden in Appeal For Clemency |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/08/2002 |
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A former Illinois prison warden serving a 4-year sentence for reckless homicide and aggravated drunken driving has asked Gov. George Ryan for clemency, his lawyer said recently. Former Shawnee Correctional Center Warden William Barham filed a clemency request with the Illinois Prisoner Review Board on October 22, said his attorney, Edward Kionka. Barham, 48, is serving his sentence in a federal prison in Rochester, Minn. He was convicted last year of being the driver in a late-night car crash Oct. 15, 2000, that left another person in the car, fellow prison employee Jerry Isom, 47, dead. The two had spent four hours at a local bar after attending a fundraiser for Rep. Jim Fowler (D-Harrisburg) along with Donald Snyder, director of the Department of Corrections, in Harrisburg, according to court papers. Barham says it was Isom who was driving the state-issued car when it left a two-lane highway near the town of Simpson and crashed into a tree. Barham's injuries were not consistent with injuries he would have suffered had he been in the driver's seat, Kionka said. Kionka also disputed the results of blood-alcohol tests that prosecutors say showed Barham was drunk at the time. The man who prosecuted Barham thinks the application has little chance of success. 'He has unsuccessfully attempted every other legal tactic to try to get out of prison,' said Alan McIntyre, Johnson County assistant state's attorney. 'This is just another one.' Barham's appeal of his conviction is pending before Illinois' 5th District Appellate Court, Kionka said. It is not related to the clemency application. |
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