From the Associated Press:  Convicted Lawyer Wants to Teach Morality, by Thomas Watkins:

A lawyer known for his high-profile cases against the police and President Bush asked a judge on Wednesday to spare him jail time for federal tax evasion and fraud conviction. Prosecutors said Stephen Yagman, 63, should serve a minimum of nine years in prison. Yagman’s lawyer argued the punishment would be too harsh, calling it "vindictive prosecution."

Defense attorney Barry Tarlow said his client should be spared prison because he was in poor health and would be physically endangered should he be incarcerated. Tarlow said because he worked as an attorney for the Christopher Commission, which was formed to examine allegations of excessive force in the Los Angeles Police Department after the Rodney King beating in the early 1990s, he has made plenty of enemies in the law-enforcement world, Tarlow said.

If he avoids prison time, Yagman has been asked to teach an undergraduate course on law, morality and social justice at University of California, Los Angeles, Tarlow said.

See also this L.A. Times story.  (Hat Tip: Anand Desai.) Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• L.A. Civil Rights Attorney Yagman Indicted for Tax Evasion (6/24/06)
• Jury Deliberates in Tax Evasion Trial of L.A. Civil Rights Attorney Yagman (6/21/07)
• L.A. Civil Rights Attorney Yagman Convicted of Tax Evasion (6/24/07)

Update:  The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog has more here.