Sometimes people do a series of "stupid" and/or "destructive" things that, in reality, is a cry for help.
The defense attorney for D.C. Council member Marion Barry said yesterday that he is meeting with the former mayor this week to decide how best to respond to a recent request by federal prosecutors to revoke Mr. Barry's probation in a criminal tax case.
If the motion is granted, the revocation could put Mr. Barry back behind bars more than 15 years after he served six months on drug charges.
"Just because they write it doesn't mean it's true," attorney Frederick D. Cooke Jr. said of the court filing last week in which prosecutors stated that Mr. Barry had failed to pay his 2005 taxes.
Mr. Barry received three years of probation last year after pleading guilty to failing to file returns on more than $500,000 in income from 1999 to 2004.
"I haven't had a chance to draft a response because I have to talk to my client and gather information," Mr. Cooke said.
Note that I wrote SERIES. Given the recent troubles of Marion Barry, I am now wondering if this is a cry for help, him being in the first stages of dementia, or if it is as I first thought, he just doesn't give a damn.
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