Benton Harbor activist the Reverend Edward Pinkney has been sentenced to serve three to ten years in prison for violating the terms of his probation from a previous election fraud conviction. Last year, Pinkney was arrested for publishing inflammatory letters about Berrien County Judge Al Butzbaugh, which the judge found to be threatening in nature, and therefore a violation of his probation...and this week, he was finally issued his sentence for that violation. Berrien County Prosecutor Art Cotter says that he thinks Pinkney is getting what he had coming to him:
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The election fraud conviction involved his alleged tampering with the results of a recall in election in Benton Harbor in 2005. He was given probation last year, but re-arrested over the allegedly threatening letters last December. The letters, which were published in the Peoples' Tribune, wished "consumption and burning" upon Butzbaugh. Pinkney will get credit for time he's already served.
