Appeal filed in the Beekman Junior High School incident
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WEST MONROE, La., (KNOE 8 News) - One of the three men convicted last year of a 2007 Louisiana hate crime has filed an appeal of his sentence.
Tony L. Johnson's lawyer has asked District Judge Robert James to review the sentence.
Last year, Johnson and two others, James Lee Wallis Jr. his brother, Brian Wallis, all pled guilty to the charges filed in connection with a dead raccoon being hung on a flagpole outside Beekman Junior High School in Morehouse Parish in 2007. Federal prosecutors had charged that the men did it because they were angry that the school's new busing policy had increased the number of black students at the school.
James Lee Wallis Jr. was sentenced to 8 months in prison, his brother Brian to 5 months, and Tony L. Johnson to 6 months.
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