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25 May, 2007 6:04 am
... are excerpts: Prosecutors and defense lawyers for a former White House aide, I. Lewis Libby
Jr., face a deadline Friday to give their final recommendations on the sentence he should ... , set for June 5, is not what punishment Judge Reggie Walton imposes, but whether he
allows Libby to remain free while pursuing his appeal.... Bail for ... the former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney. However, if the judge orders Libby jailed
forthwith, Mr. Bush will face intense and immediate pressure from many of ...
7 Jul, 2007 7:34 pm
... Times. LINK Until he commuted the 30-month prison sentence of I. Lewis Libby Jr. on
Monday, President Bush had said almost nothing about his philosophy ... courts had ample opportunity to review all the legal issues in this case?" In Mr. Libby's case, Mr. Bush
expressed no doubts about his guilt. He ... University of Texas who has represented death-row inmates. "The exercise of the commutation power in Libby," Professor Steiker
continued, "represents a dramatic shift from his attitude toward clemency ...
20 Mar, 2008 3:39 pm
... Dick Cheney, was disbarred today by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. The disbarrment precludes Mr. Libby for practising law in D.C. only. On March 6, 2007, Mr ...
CIA operative, Valerie Plame. President George W. Bush commuted Mr. Libby's 30 month jail sentence in July, 2007. The appellate court's ... exception to the Board's Report and
Recommendation. Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is disbarred from
the practice of law in the District of Columbia, and his name shall ...
20 Mar, 2008 9:26 am
The Blog of the Legal Times reports that the D.C. Court of Appeals has disbarred I. Lewis "Scooter"
Libby. The decision is available here. It says (in part): When a member of the Bar is convicted of an offense involving moral turpitude, disbarment ... Counsel nor respondent has
taken exception to the Board's Report and Recommendation. Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that I. Lewis
Libby, Jr. is disbarred from the practice of law in the District of Columbia, and his name shall be stricken from the ...
13 Feb, 2007 11:34 pm
... trial team's decision: WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 - Lawyers defending I. Lewis Libby Jr. against
perjury charges surprised the courtroom on Tuesday by saying that they would ... Cheney's water on this issue and it was, as Fitzgerald framed the testimony, an important one. As for
Libby testifying, what was he going to say? "Gee, now I remember, what you heard on those ... Libby would likely testify." Go to any criminal trial in D.C. superior court,
where assaults and drug dealing are prosecuted every day. You'll ...
3 Jul, 2007 8:48 am
... Not so for Mr. Bush, the president. Judging from his decision yesterday to commute the 30-month sentence of I. Lewis Libby Jr. - who was charged with perjury and convicted - untarnished ideals are less of a priority than protecting the secrets of his
inner circle ... are indeed two standards of justice - one for the powerful and well-connected and another for the rest of the country. And Libby, as former chief of staff to
Vice President Dick Cheney, couldn't have been sitting closer to the seats of ...
5 Jul, 2007 8:16 am
Source: Crime and Justice News, July 5, 2007. "In commuting I. Lewis Libby Jr.'s 30-month
prison sentence, President Bush drew on the same ... . Bush used every element of that critique setting out his reasons for commuting Libby's sentence." "That was an unexpected
gift to defense lawyers around the U.S., who scrambled to ... sentencing system that is distinctly disrespectful of the very arguments that Bush has put forward in cutting Libby
a break,' said Ohio State University law Prof. Douglas Berman. ...
15 Feb, 2007 4:37 am
By SCOTT SHANE The perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., former top aide to Vice President Dick
Cheney, has drawn every major news organization in the country ... crushed by the defense decision this week not to put Mr. Cheney and Mr. Libby on the stand - than
Firedoglake.com. Even the Web-savvy may ask, Fire dog ... A collective of liberal bloggers, fueled by online donations and a fanatical devotion to the intricacies of the Libby
case, Firedoglake has offered intensive trial coverage, using some six ...
7 Mar, 2007 4:20 am
The trial and conviction of I. Lewis Libby Jr. is a great illustration of why courts should
not recognize a testimonial privilege for journalists. While trials and journalists both are preoccupied with arriving at the truth, they do so by different standards. The law insists
on transparency; journalists often proceed under cloak of darkness. Libby's trial was a perfect example of how the powerful use the press to play games with the lives of others.
Consider the coded language used by ...
11 Jun, 2007 5:48 am
"Libby's Supporters Who Wrote to Judge Learn That Letters Take on New Life on the Web": The New York Times today contains an article that begins, "In what may be a sign of things
to come, the lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. last month invoked the rarely used courtroom
tactic: the 'bloggers can be mean' defense." And The Washington Post reports today that "Dozen Top Legal Scholars Line Up for Libby Appeal."
16 Jan, 2007 1:18 pm
The Scooter Libby trial kicked off yesterday. I. Lewis Libby, Jr. - the I stands for
Irve - who served as Cheney's chief of staff, is accused of lying to investigators about his conversations with reporters regarding outed CIA officer Valerie Plame. Defending him are
two heavyweight litigators - Ted Wells of Paul Weiss and [...]
3 Jul, 2007 4:38 am
President Bush commuted I. Lewis Libby Jr.'s prison sentence yesterday. With some calling it a
correction of a miscarriage of justice, the only miscarriage of justice I see here is the arrogant belief of the administration that it is above ... the Times as saying "I respect the
jury's verdict...But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive." Forget that an experienced federal judge considered all of the evidence and
imposed a sentence that was consistent with the law ...
6 Mar, 2007 11:12 am
... computer, big news breaks. Here's a thread for discussion of the verdict in the Scooter Libby case. We'll update this post with comments and links as we read ... most
substantive and informative of the three): A federal jury today convicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of
lying about his role in the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity, ... two talented defense lawyers: Theodore V. Wells Jr., of Paul Weiss, and William Jeffress Jr.,
of Baker Botts. (Random digression: Ted Wells was at Lowenstein ...
5 Jul, 2007 3:55 am
... Bush's Justice Department frequently seeks sentences that are as long, or longer, in cases similar to I. Lewis Libby's.[2] Three-fourths of the 198 defendants sentenced in federal court last ... appropriate sentences.[7] "It denigrates the significance of
perjury prosecutions," John S. Martin Jr., a former U.S. attorney and federal judge in Manhattan, said of the commutation.[ ... United States. [1] Richard B. Schmitt & David
G. Savage, Libby's sentence not unusually long, Los Angeles Times, July 4, ...
3 Jul, 2007 5:45 am
President Bush commuted former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. a 2 1/2-year
prison term in the CIA leak investigation Monday, saying the ... have to report soon, and it put new pressure on the president, who had been sidestepping calls by Libby's allies
to pardon Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff.[2]"I ... trying to discredit her husband, Joseph Wilson, a critic of Bush's Iraq policy.[5] Libby was convicted of
obstruction of justice, 18 U.S.C. § 1503, which states that a ...
16 Jul, 2007 11:33 am
... its June 21 ruling upholding the 33-month prison sentence of Victor A. Rita, Jr. (Rita v. U.S., docket 06-5754). Going even further, ... s explanation for nullifying the
30-month prison sentence of former vice presidential aide I. Lewis Libby in the leak case, the new
filing argued, "directly conflicts with the federal sentencing ... investigation. Rita received a 33-month sentence, at the low end of the Guidelines range; Libby got a 30-month
sentence at the low end. President Bush, however, found the ...
11 Jul, 2007 8:20 am
... Committee on Wednesday. Despite "striking similarities" between the federal cases against Victor A. Rita, Jr., and I. Lewis Libby, "today Mr. Rita is in prison and Mr. ... Libby's sentence mirror Mr. Rita's arguments before the Supreme Court." Cochran argued the
case of Rita v. U.S. (06-5754) on Feb. ... "reasonable." Cochran was summoned to testify on Wednesday as the Judiciary Committee opened a probe into the Libby commutation.
Cochran's prepared testimony can be found here. The statement contrasted ...
3 Jul, 2007 4:27 am
President Bush yesterday backtracked on his pledge to let the legal process for I. Lewis "Scooter"
Libby, Jr., run its course, commuting his sentence from 30 months in prison to ... . Bush would go in granting clemency. Blawgletter confesses to hoping, forlornly, that
Mr. Libby would spend his time in the big house, the hoosegow, the slammer, and the gaol. ... uprright and their opponents as forces of discord and evil. Yes, Mr. Libby's
story includes elements of tragedy, but he deserves the full measure ...
10 Dec, 2007 12:33 pm
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr., no longer challenges his conviction of perjury and obstruction
of justice, per the NYT today. According to the D.C. Circuit's PACER docket in Mr. Libby's appeal, the court extended the deadline for the opening brief until December 11, 2007
-- tomorrow. United States v. Libby, No. 07-3068 (D.C. Cir.). So that probably explains why we hear today that Mr. Libby will not proceed. No word on whether Mr.
Libby plans to request a full ...
5 Jul, 2007 7:47 am
... Bush proved his kinship with Emerson by commuting the 30-month sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter"
Libby, Jr., for perjury and justice obstruction.. How so, you say? By using ... course before considering intervention) . The president even refused to watch coverage of
Mr. Libby's trial, preferring, we surmise, to assess the defendant's blameworthiness on a cold ... whomsoever, howsoever, and whensoever he wishes. But we do propose that the
Libby commutation captures Mr. Bush's reflexively ad hoc, supra-legal ...
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