Libby Prepares Request For New Trial

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http://wcbstv.com/topstories/topstories_story_066115817.html

Libby Prepares Request For New Trial
White House Refuses To Discuss Possible Pardon

(AP) WASHINGTON Attorneys for convicted former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby began working on a request for a new trial Wednesday as the Bush White House steadfastly refused to talk about a possible pardon in the CIA leak case.

Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was found guilty of perjury and obstruction in the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. He is the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since the Iran-Contra scandal two decades ago.

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Attorney William Jeffress, meantime, said that Libby's defense team has begun reviewing the monthlong trial and preparing the request for a new one. It's a common request among defense attorneys and one that's not often granted. U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton had made several rulings in the case over the objection of defense attorneys.

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"We have every confidence Mr. Libby ultimately will be vindicated," defense attorney Theodore Wells said. He said Libby was "totally innocent and that he did not do anything wrong."

[uppityperson]

1. I luv this part...

"Libby's attorneys tried to use that at trial to persuade jurors that, since nobody was charged in the case, Libby didn't fear prosecution for the leak and so he had no reason to lie. Juror Denis Collins summed up the dilemma that he and his associates faced behind closed doors.

"There was a frustration that we were trying someone for telling a lie apparently about an event that never became important enough to file charges anywhere else," he said Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America.""


It doesn't matter. You are not supposed to lie under oath, and you are not supposed to lie to FBI, and you are not supposed to impede investigations, whether or not what it is all about ever gets taken to court. You are not supposed to lie.