Greedy Trial Lawyer
The Libby Sentencing Watch - The Watergate Lesson
Category: News Defused
Expecting Scooter Libby to say anything significant at his sentencing today is...well, naive. And, remorse is not even a remote possibility. Scooter's defense was compromised by his desire to protect his buddies in the Bush Administration. Why would he now destroy his prospects for a pardon from his Chief Buddy?
On the other hand, if he were to draw a couple of years in prison without any suspension for an appeal and, after a few months in the slammer was not seeing a pardon on the horizon, that is another story. I believe Watergate tongues loosened under similar circumstances.
Libby faces sentencing Tuesday, but will he speak in court?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawyers, politicians and pundits have had their say for years. Now, as former White House aide I. Lewis «Scooter» Libby faces sentencing in the CIA leak trial, the world may hear from someone new: Libby himself.Libby has not spoken publicly about the case since his 2005 indictment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. Throughout his monthlong trial, and following his conviction in March, he always let his lawyers do the talking.
On Tuesday, however, before U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton hands down a sentence, he will ask the former vice presidential chief of staff whether he has anything to say.
Defense attorneys, who argue that Libby should not have to serve any jail time, have not said how Libby will respond. It's a delicate decision, one made more difficult because Libby has maintained his innocence and is appealing his conviction.
«The only thing any sentencing judge wants to hear is remorse, and if they don't think it comes from the heart or they think they're only sorry for getting caught, for losing their job, or for going to jail, it doesn't count,» said Hugh Keefe, a Connecticut defense attorney who teaches trial advocacy at Yale University.
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