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Legal Reaction to Scooter Libby Sentencing

By Jeralyn, Section Lewis Libby Trial Coverage
Posted on Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 05:38:41 PM EST
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Ok, we've linked to Firedoglake over and over today as they have the most thorough coverage of the Scooter Libby Sentencing (great job, Marcy, Jane and Christy.)

What are the law bloggers and commentators saying?

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So let the word go forth: It does not pay to be a high-profile convict in just about any justice system in America. Judge Walton used Libby as a symbol to spread the gospel to the masses much in the same way that Paris Hilton's judge used her celebrity to make his point that you can't violate the terms of your probation and figure you are just going to get slapped on the wrist.

No, it's not a great stretch to compare the somber Libby with the flighty Hilton; they both got more prison time than they would have received from their respective judges had they been anonymous schleps.

On TV, I think CNN's Jeff Toobin has been very good.
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    Legal Reaction to Scooter Libby Sentencing | 7 comments (7 topical)

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    i CANNOT believe what dick cheney just DID! (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by the rainnn on Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 07:43:30 PM EST
    even if i tried, i could
    not make this stuff up -- it
    just writes itself! -- the vice
    president of the united states,
    one mister richard b. cheney, on
    the white house .gov web
    site     (with our tax-money!),
    no less, has offered his support for
    the convicted perjurer and justice-
    obstructor, lewis libby. did i miss
    something? didn't mr. cheney swear to
    uphold the law when he took the oath
    of office in jan. 2001, and jan. 2005    ?

    this is pernicious.

    Cheney's statement includes (none / 0) (#4)
    by Edger on Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 07:54:04 PM EST
    "Speaking as friends, we hope that our system will return a final result consistent with what we know of this fine man. . ."

    Ummm, Dick? They just did.

    Parent

    Well, not "final" in the (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by oculus on Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 07:59:04 PM EST
    in the judicial sense.  

    Parent
    sadly -- cheney ALSO hints. . . (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by the rainnn on Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 08:05:19 PM EST
    that his version of
    "final" includes a pardon. . .

    [where'd we put the pitchforks
    and torches? -- time to head
    over to frankenstein's castle. . .]

    did anyone check cheney's
    neck-bolts, lately?  they
    MUST need tightening. . .

    Parent

    But... (none / 0) (#7)
    by Edger on Wed Jun 06, 2007 at 05:04:12 AM EST
    I bet Libby's criminal conviction was consistent with what Dick knows of the fine man. Maybe Dick thinks the sentence was too short?

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    Median Household Income appx 42k (none / 0) (#1)
    by seabos84 on Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 07:13:23 PM EST
    and, off of 2005 census figures, that is out of about 110,000,000 million households.*

    at 42 grand for 2.2 peoples, getting busted for these kinds of charges equals:

    for paris' stuff - 5? 10? 15 grand? actually, with her lawyers, ha ha ha, forget it.

    for poor ol scooter's stuff - 150k? 350k

    oh, but, wait, for most of those 55 million households, now you got ... the breadwinner ? ... either in the joint or unemployed and unemployable for scooter's stuff ...

    for paris's stuff, what happens to working when, through your own stupidity, you can't drive? hope your not one of those zillions workign constantly changing shifts in an area with little or no public transit.

    for scores of millions of us, these charges would be a lot more htan just the jail time.

    relatively speaking, they got what they deserved.

    rmm.

    *my figures are off - but, people who want to quibble a few thousand here or there, or a few million here or there, can go to the census website.  they are really really misssing my point

    can i please see some RESPONSIBILITY? (none / 0) (#3)
    by the rainnn on Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 07:45:23 PM EST
    oh -- and cheney called "what
    happened    " to libby a "tragedy". . .

    i am literally ready to
    throw my lap-top though the
    sliding glass doors, tonight. . .

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