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Court Denies Libby's Request to Delay Prison Sentence and President Grants Him Clemency

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Follow up to previous postings on Plame CIA leak case, news today that the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has unanimously denied I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s request to delay his prison sentence.
Grant of Executive Clemency, July 2, 2007 and Statement by the President On Executive Clemency for Lewis Libby
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s Statement on Libby [via National Review]: “…Although the President’s decision eliminates Mr. Libby’s sentence of imprisonment, Mr. Libby remains convicted by a jury of serious felonies, and we will continue to seek to preserve those convictions through the appeals process.”
Related government documents and articles on executive clemency:

  • The Political Roots of Executive Clemency, Andrew B. Whitford, University of Georgia – Department of Public Administration and Policy, Holanna L. Ochs, University of Kansas – Department of Political Science, 2006
  • Presidential Clemency Actions by Administration: 1945 to 2001 (DOJ)
  • Criminal Justice Resources – Clemency Law, by Ken Strutin, Published on May 29, 2007, LLRX.com
  • Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR) – [e-CFR Data is current as of June 28, 2007] TITLE 28–Judicial Administration, Chapter I–Department of Justice – PART 1–Executive Clemency
  • Rules Governing Petitions for Executive Clemency, United States Department of Justice
  • CNN Political Ticker, Libby commutation: Washington responds
  • Editor and Publisher: Editorials Hit Libby’s Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
  • Sentencing Law and Policy Blog: Legal complications following Bush’s commutation
  • DOJ, Office of the Pardon Attorney
  • The United States v. I. Lewis Libby (Paperback) by Murray Waas (Editor)
  • via The Smoking Gun, a copy of Libby’s $250,400 cashier’s check, assigned to the Clerk of the Court, District of Columbia, dated July 2 and filed July 5, 2007
  • Press release, July 5, 2007: “Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) has drafted and will file a Congressional resolution censuring President George W. Bush for his egregious and politically motivated commutation of Scooter Libby’s prison sentence. The censure resolution, which is attached below, will be formally introduced in the House of Representatives on Tuesday July 10, 2007 when Congress reconvenes from the 4th of July recess.” [Text of the Resolution Censuring President George W. Bush is included in the release.]”

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