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O'Hara's vote appeal fails in fed court

Irish Echo
March 12-18, 2003

By Ray O'Hanlon

John Kennedy O'Hara says he is down but not out. The Brooklyn native who was convicted of felony voting fraud lost out in his appeal before a federal judge last week.
But O'Hara said that he would now take his legal battle to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. This despite the decision by federal Judge John Gleeson of the Eastern district court in Brooklyn to back the conviction of O'Hara in a case brought by the office of Brooklyn District Attorney Charles "Joe" Hynes.

Judge Gleeson, in a decision read from the bench on Friday, March 7, said that he did not think that there had been a substantial showing of a denial of O'Hara's constitutional rights in the case. He said he was denying the appeal on its merits.

O'Hara has been banned from voting in his native Brooklyn because he voted from his girlfriend's address and not his own home some distance away, during several elections in 1992 and '93.

He is the first New Yorker to be convicted of voting fraud since suffragette Susan B. Anthony in 1876.

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