Scooter's Latest Desperate Attempt To Stay Out Of Jail

[Me.]

CNN is reporting that his attorneys have filed an emergency appeal to keep him out of prison. The ruling could come today.

[SharonRB]

1. What kind of emergency?

Does he have a psychiatric problem like Paris had?

[eleny]

2. I imagine he's been wetting his pants a lot

[napi21]

3. The appeals court is in recess right now. They have to file an

emergency request to get a 3 judge panel to hear the case. The entire court does not hear an emergency case, just 3 of the judges, randomly selected.

[Me.]

5. Thanks

Hoping the panel is truly randomly selected

[H2O Man]

10. See:

http://www.scooterlibby.com/news/briefs/appeal_exhibitsA-G.pdf

Hope the link works ...

[Me.]

11. Hope Abounds

Thanks

[Me.]

4. The Ticking Clock Variety

Is congenital lying considered to be a psychiatric disorder?

[Rude Horner]

6. Maybe there's someone that needs "outing"

and since he's the most qualified for the job, it would be inconvenient if he was in jail. :shrug:

[Missy Vixen]

7. Pooor Scooooter!

At the risk of being meanspirited, I must post this here.



Julie

[Supersedeas]

8. Why is he NOT in jail yet!?!

[MasonJar]

9. If he'd just gone on, he'd have a few days served. Martha went early

I believe and even Paris showed up. They are just delaying so he never serves a day when W pardons him when he leaves office. Maybe he can negotiate a trade off...Cheney goes in his stead...even better Cheney and Bush go in his stead. That's a trade that the country and the world would stand behind.

[blogslut]

12. Nice point

Hey Scooter. Even Paris Hilton had enough character to actually show up for jail. If she can do it, why can't you?

[Disturbed]

13. Libby got a break on sentencing.

Three Felonies should have been 6 years.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. I wonder if his attorneys are as creative as Dick's

Maybe his attorneys will say that Scooter was not from the executive branch of the government but from an entirely unique and independent branch, and that Patrick Fitzgerald wasn't actually a part of the Justice Department, and that the court in which he was convicted wasn't part of the US judiciary, and that the conviction therefore cannot result in serving time in any branch of the federal prison system.

[warren pease]

15. But there's always Abu Ghraib...

>"...the conviction therefore cannot result in serving time in any branch of the federal prison system."

But our fine gulag of off-shore hell-holes can't be part of the federal prison system since they violate the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits torture "...because it is the needless infliction of pain."

OOOOOOOooooooh, Scooter. Be careful what you wish for...


wp

[PRETZEL]

16. Question out of curiosity,

Not reading the whole thing, Team Libby is claiming that there is grounds for appeal based on "inferior" vs. "principal" designation as it related to the CIPA hearings. I wasn't quite sure what to make of that argument.

How valid is it?

[H2O Man]

17. Not likely

to help them much.

[PRETZEL]

18. In what regard,

unless I'm totally misunderstanding the argument, they seemed to be making the case that under the statutes they cited (sorry, don't have it in front of me) that when Comey designated Fitzgerald as Special Counsel he would have been viewed as an "inferior" officer since he wasn't named by Bush and confirmed by Congress. If the agrument that Team Libby is using that under CIPA because national security issues and classified information was involved it should have been argued by a "principal" which would have had been subject to confirmation rules.

I know to me I don't care who argued the case Libby was most certainly guilty as hell, but I'd really hate to see this overturned over something this technical.