(AP) — A judge has denied a request by a former Honolulu police lieutenant to stay out of prison while he appeals his conviction in a corruption case. Derek Wayne Hahn is scheduled to begin a three-and-a-half year prison sentence in Oregon next week. He filed a motion asking to remain free pending an appeal that could take several years. Defense attorney Victor Bakke says a judge denied the request at a hearing Tuesday. A jury convicted Hahn, another former police officer, a former Honolulu police chief and the ex-chief’s former prosecutor wife of conspiracy in a plot to frame a man.

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