Former California State Senator Roderick Wright left jail 70 minutes after turning himself in by the Friday deadline given to him after he was sentenced last month to 90 days in jail, three years probation and 1,500 hours of community service, the DailyBreeze.com reported.
According to the Sheriff's Public Information Officer Nicole Nishida, sheriff's Public Information Officer Nicole Nishida, Wright turned himself in at 9:30 p.m. Friday and was released at 10:40 p.m. due to jail overcrowding, according to the DailyBreeze.
Wright is guilty of lying to cover up the fact that he lived outside the district he represented, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was convicted in January of fraudulent voting, perjury by declaration and filing a false declaration of candidacy.
Wright argues that the law allowed him to reside in the affluent Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, outside the modest Inglewood suburb he was elected to represent, so long as he kept a home at an Inglewood address, which he rented out to his stepmother, according to the LA Times.
Wright's attorney, Winston Kevin McKesson, said Wright "followed the law," and told jurors he had "established domicile" at the Inglewood property, where his stepmother was renting a unit from him, the DailyBreeze reported.
After his conviction, Wright was suspended from the state Senate. Three days after his sentencing hearing, he submitted his resignation, according to the DailyBreeze. Wright is can never hold any future public office in the state.
