James "Whitey" Bulger Attorneys' File for Appeal

After last weeks sentence came down of two life sentences + five years, Whitey Bulger was shuffled off to jail, but he would not go silently. Even though he stuck with the crime code of silence through out his trail and even at his sentencing, his attorneys did the talking for him.

Late Wednesday a one sentence appeal was filed in court, stating that it was against the law to imprison Bulger for he was acting as an informant for a federal-prosecutor who granted him immunity, and was okayed by the prosecutor to commit the crimes that he was going to spend the rest of his life in prison for.

Bulger calls the trial a sham, and his attorneys are saying that it is unfair they were unable to use the testimony of the federal prosecutor that supposedly gave him the ok to commit these crimes, due the fact that he was dead.

From most accounts it sounds like the appeal will probably go over like a led balloon. Whitey's handlers were corrupt federal agents taking bribes from him, so even if they were to testify it probably would not hold a lot of weight.