Does the Libby Verdict Have Appeal?

National Review - by Victoria Toensing - Mar. 7, 2007 (Opinion)
The Scooter Libby verdict makes no logical sense, but that won't bother the legal notions of an appellate court. In convicting on four counts but acquitting of one, the jury made the peculiar decision that Libby lied before the grand jury about his conversation with Time's Matt Cooper, but not to the FBI when the agents questioned him about the same conversation. Libby gave the same general answer in both fora, specifically that he told Matt Cooper that he ... More »