A former justice of the Michigan Supreme Court was sentenced on May 28, having been convicted of bank fraud, the Spero Forum website reports today (May 29, 2013). Defense lawyer Steven Fishman had requested leniency in an appearance before a federal court in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Former justice Diane Hathaway -- who was elected to the Michigan Supreme Court in 2008 -- pleaded guilty in January to making misleading statements to a bank during the short sale of her house in Gross Pointe, a wealthy suburb of Detroit. She resigned her judgeship on January 21.
She was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John Corbett O'Meara to one year and one day in prison, followed by two years of supervised release.
Appearing shaken, Hathaway addressed the court before receiving her sentence. The former jurist said she was "ashamed and humiliated." She added, "I stand before you a broken person.... I take full responsibility for my actions."
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