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From: LindyBill7/2/2007 2:45:47 PM
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Bush should go ahead and pardon now. If he lets Libby go to jail, I will lose all respect for him.

I was wrong: D.C. Circuit panel denies Libby's application for release pending appeal

By Beldar on Law (2007)

Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald continues his unbeaten streak in the Libby case, and I have been proved flatly wrong in my prediction that the D.C. Circuit would grant Libby bail pending appeal:

"A federal appeals court ruled today that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, must report to prison shortly to begin serving his 30-month sentence for lying to federal investigators about his role in leaking a CIA officer's identity.

In a one-paragraph order, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied Libby's request to remain free while he appeals his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice.

The judges said that Libby's appeal does not raise "a substantial question" close enough that it is likely his conviction will be overturned."

Libby's lawyers can, and probably will, ask the full D.C. Circuit to rehear that decision en banc, and/or ask the member of the Supreme Court with responsibility for emergency matters out of the D.C. Circuit — that being Chief Justice John Roberts — to overturn the panel's decision. The odds of getting that relief from either are very, very remote.
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