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Federal prison officials are expected to pick up Stephen Nodine this week and begin the process of moving him to a prison in Florida to serve his sentence, his attorney said Monday.

Gordon G. Armstrong III , who represented Nodine in a federal gun charge, said that Nodine will first be taken from the Baldwin County Corrections Center in Bay Minette to a private prison facility in Perry County, Alabama. Bureau of Prisons officials have said Nodine will ultimately serve his sentence at FCI Miami, located in Dade County, Armstrong said.

The Miami prison is a low-security facility that includes a camp, he said.

Armstrong said that he talked to Nodine on Monday and said that the former Mobile County commissioner is ready to begin his sentence. “He’s ready to go where he’s going,” he said.

Nodine wanted to serve his time in a facility closer to Mobile to be closer to his son, Armstrong said. Nodine’s mother and two sisters live in south Florida, he said.

Nodine pleaded guilty in October to a federal gun charge. He was sentenced in April to 15 months in prison.

Prosecutors brought the charge last year following the Mother’s Day fatal shooting of Nodine’s mistress, Angel Downs, in Gulf Shores. The day after Downs died, Nodine gave two handguns to a pair of Mobile County government attorneys who had driven to his house to check on him.

Neither gun was involved in the Downs shooting, but federal prosecutors charged him under a statute that prohibits an unlawful drug user from possessing firearms. In his guilty plea, Nodine admitted that he had the guns during 2009 when he was smoking marijuana and taking large amounts of the painkiller Lortab.

A Baldwin County jury deadlocked in December on murder and stalking charges in connection with Downs’ death, and District Attorney Hallie Dixon has not yet decided whether to retry him.

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