Libby's Lawyers Hope To Put Prison On Hold

[sabra]

Source: CBS/AP

(CBS/AP) Attorneys for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby are preparing a last-ditch effort to delay the former White House aide's 2½-year prison sentence.

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Libby's attorneys immediately sought to put the prison term on hold until his appeals have run out. Walton said he saw no reason to do so but reluctantly gave Libby's attorneys until Thursday to submit legal papers on the issue.

"When the Libby appeal comes, it surely will contain a section on Judge Walton's decision to include in his sentencing rationale the Plame leak, even though no one was ever charged with that crime," CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen

"The use of such evidence is a hot-button issue now in federal sentencing law, with judges and scholars all scrapping over when it can be used by judges and when it cannot be," Cohen said.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/06/politics/main2891471.shtml

[napi21]

1. Scooter's lawyers have been wrong all along, and I think they're

wrong now too. I don't think Judge Walton GAS what those guys put in their plea!

[BOSSHOG]

2. The leak of Plame's identity

had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with libby's fair trial and just conviction. But ya can't prove that by one trained at the limbaugh school or gross ignorance and arrogance.

But, if the flag wavers want to play that game then would one please answer my question. If there were no underlying crime why did libby HAVE to lie? Go ahead, give it a shot.

[saigon68]

3. If the Chimp pardons hime he will NEVER spend a day in jail

If he's out on appeal---- the chimp can slide a pardon his way, on a Friday afternoon news dump day

Maybe like war criminal ollie north, then he will get a TV show on Faux News.

LOL

[Pokey Anderson]

7. Well, there's another way Scooter can avoid jail.

Ken Lay managed to die between conviction and the playing out of appeals. And, in what I consider a weird law, the conviction became moot.

So. If Scooter's wife reports that he "dropped dead" between now and jail time, and his body is rushed to a coroner in the dead of night 180 miles from the nearest coroner, well, that would be corn-veen-i-ent.

[saigon68]

9. That would be following a pattern

I thought I saw Ken Lay on Miami Beach this last Easter

[Kagemusha]

4. Walton put it very simply. No reward for successfully obstructing justice

You should not get extra punishment merely for attempting to obstruct justice and FAILING.

[uncle ray]

6. except scooter succeeded at obstructing justice.

[Kagemusha]

8. And he was sentenced with that in mind.

So I'll take it.

[liberal N proud]

5. Until Jan 20, 2009?

If they can keep him out until then, bu$h can pardon him.