Does the Libby Verdict Have Appeal?

Making sense of legal nonsense.

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 ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Mar 7, 2007 - 8:39 AM PST
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by Rory O'Connor - Mar. 7, 2007

Although the author is an experienced attorney, she also has a political bias, and it shows here. I did get some information about the possibility of an appeal being successful, but that's about all...

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