Henson was a political consultant to the campaign of former Republican Governor Robert Ehrlich in his race against the Democratic incumbent, Martin O'Malley. Prosecutors say the call's goal was to discourage black Democrats from showing up at the polls by fooling them into thinking there was no need to vote. 

When Fox News asked Henson if he had indeed tried to suppress the black vote, he was emphatic: "Absolutely not." 

As for the prosecution's allegations that he did, Henson said, "They've been talking for 18 months -- we get a chance to talk now and I think that the jurors and the judge will find the call was made, was a good call." 

Henson has claimed that "the speech clause in the Constitution says that political speech is free ... nothing in that call was not true." 

Henson also insisted that the goal of the call was to increase voter turnout, and blames his prosecution on "pure politics."