Ex-City Council member Charles Powe...

Ex-City Council member Charles Powell Jr 62 must wait at least another week to find disclosed if a federal judge will toss him to prison for conspiracy to commit suffrage fraud.

U.S. District arbiter G. Patrick Murphy halted Powell's sentencing hearing Monday morning after federal prosecutors asked for time to prepare for four character witnesses -- including St Clair shire Circuit Court Judge John Baricevic -- who Powell's attorney had subpoenaed without notifying the U attorney's office.

Bruce prepare for the table Powell's lawyer, had subpoenaed the witnesses to convince Murphy to depart downward from federal sentencing guidelines, which had called for a prison period of time of 27 to 33 month

color announced he planned to call Baricevic and the other three character witnesses after he had urg Murphy to use his discretion to grant Powell probation, unruffled though federal sentencing guidelines prevent probation.

Murphy turned to assistant U