State Sen. Roderick Wright, D-Inglewood, pleaded not guilty Thursday to eight felony charges of living outside the district he was elected to represent.

Wright, 58, was indicted Monday on charges of perjury by declaration, filing false declaration of candidacy and fraudulent voting. He is due back in court Oct. 8.

The indictment was unsealed Thursday when Wright appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court.

His attorney, Winston Kevin McKesson, said outside court he expects Wright to be “fully exonerated.”

“I disagree with the indictment,” McKesson said. “Senator Wright complied with the law.”

According to the District Attorney’s Office, Wright claimed when he announced his candidacy in February 2008 that he lives in a five-unit apartment building he owns on Glenway Drive in Inglewood, which is within the 25th District. He also claimed that address when he registered to vote in 2007, prosecutors said.

Investigators determined, however, that Wright has actually lived since 2000 in a home in Baldwin Hills, which is in the 26th state Senate District, according to prosecutors.

The indictment capped an investigation that began in October 2008, shortly when prosecutors received a complaint that he was living outside the district, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Wright won the June 2008 primary and was elected to the Senate during the general election in November 2008.

Wright, who previously served three terms in the Assembly, faces up to eight years and four months in prison if convicted of all charges. He would also be banned from ever holding public office.

According to the biography on his Senate website, Wright “is a home and business owner in the city of Inglewood where he remains active in community and civic affairs.”