Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Shrub even srewed up the commutation, possibly.

Now Scooter might not even have the supervised probation that Shrub mentioned in his commutation. In essence, even the handicap of supervision in his life for 2 ½ years may be gone, because the federal law states that you must sever some amount of time in order for him to have supervised probation.

SCOTUSblog

Judge questions supervision of Libby

Lawyers were ordered to file papers by Monday on "whether the defendant should be required to report to the Probation Office immediately, whether he should be allowed to remain free of supervision until some later, more appropriate time, or, indeed, whether the plain meaning of [the statute] precludes the application of a term of supervised release altogether now that the prison sentence has been commuted." Read More....


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