Verdict in Libby Trial in....reading at noon. (Guilty On 4 of 5 Charges)

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[Dog]

Breaking on MSNBC

[LYSandra]

Prayers to Scooter!

[Dog]

Now breaking on all cable networks...

[pissant]

If he was a hot looking babe, we'd all declare him innocent.

[silverleaf]

Dog, you got the first thread of 10000 to come.

[traderrob6]

No way 11 DCers found him not guilty so I would say anything other than a hung jury is bad news.

[Empireoftheatom48]

Here we go!!!!!!!!!!!

[Peach]

Uh oh. I'll postpone my trip out to see what happens.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I hope the lone holdout for acquittal didn't surrender.

[AmishDude]

I agree. Not good.

[JamesP81]

bttt

[P-Marlowe]

Ping.

[jdm]

You know it's going to be "Guilty" -- that's just how things have been going lately.

[Wolfstar]

No way 11 DCers found him not guilty so I would say anything other than a hung jury is bad news.

If they reached a verdict, there is no hung jury...unless they hung on one or two counts out of the five.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Pardon away Mr. President.

[PISANO]

The DBM is salivating over the prospect of a guilty verdict.

If Libby is found guilty the VP is the next target!!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Hang in there Scooter! We love you here at Freeperdom!!!!

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

In their questions, which were released Tuesday morning, jurors seemed confused about what Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was alleging.

This case is so bogus, not even the jury understands what the charges are.

[EternalHope]

Prayers for Mr. Libby.

[NormsRevenge]

Former White House aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby arrives at Federal Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2007, with his attorney Theodore B. Wells for the day's jury deliberations for his perjury trial. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

[MizSterious]

I think you're right, but I truly pray you're not. The dictionary should show a picture of this courtroom next to the definition of "travesty of justice."

[tioga]

Amen.

[Wolfstar]

You know it's going to be "Guilty" -- that's just how things have been going lately.

It's a jury of DC residents, one of whom is or was a Washington Post reporter. So if the verdict is not guilty, I will be thoroughly shocked.

[Miss Didi]

Just in time for Rush.

[finnman69]

I have a bad feeling he is guilty on at least one count of perjury and one of obstruction.

[tioga]

-it would be a hung jury instead of innocent....I fear a guily verdict as well.

[Bigg Red]

If Libby is found guilty the VP is the next target!!

&&
You said it!
Prayers.

[P-40]

I wonder if the networks will break from their Anna Nicole Smith coverage...

[FormerACLUmember]

Biggest leftist show trial of an innocent man since Stalin's show trials of the 1930's. An absolute defecation on any concept of justice.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

'swhat I think, too.

[Enchante]

This is almost certainly bad news, because if they were deadlocked they have to tell the judge and he has options to tell them to go back and deliberate more or he can question them individually to see if he thinks they are all deliberating in good faith, etc. So I think (but I'm not a lawyer) that a DC jury arriving at a verdict in this case almost certainly means "guilty" on at least some charge(s)..... but we'll all find out in 15-20 minutes!

[nutmeg]

Just breaking...

[YaYa123]

I bet Chris Matthews is peeing his pants!

[Steve_Seattle]

I was just re-reading firedoglake's account of Fitz's closing remarks, how they were amazed Wells didn't object to all the conspiracy stuff Fitz was throwing at the jury. Jeffress finally objected, but only after the damage was done. I think this was deliberate by the defense. I think they thought was hanging hemself by his own petard. It is prohibited for a prosecutor to present closing remarks based on evidence that wasn't introduced in the trial, and that is EXACTLY what Fitz did.

Fitz was lying when he said he was simply arguing Libby's state of mind. No, he was prejudicing the jury by arguing that a covert agent was outed, that her life was jeopardized, and that this was done because the admin was attacking a critic for exposing its lies about pre-war Iraq intelligence. Fitz had provided no evidence, other than hearsay, for any of this. I think Wells was thinking, "Thank you very much, Fitz."

[Feiny]

FREE SCOOTER
FREE SCOOTER

[fatnotlazy]

"I wonder if the networks will break from their Anna Nicole Smith coverage..."

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LOL. I doubt it...unless the verdict is guilty.

[Txsleuth]

I PRAY that Sissy Chrissy wets his pants.

I would PAY to see that.

[nutmeg]

You know it's going to be "Guilty" -- that's just how things have been going lately.

I fear you may be right...

[dead]

Guilty on one or two lesser counts. Hung on the rest.

[STARWISE]

LIVE VERDICT AT NOON .. HERE!

Praying for justice and relief for Scooter and his family.

[hsmomx3]

Patrick Fitzgerald....

Sounds too much like a Kennedy relative.

[1Old Pro]

We can only hope for Justice.

[ichabod1]

First Scooter, then Shooter, to use Ed Schultz vernacular.

[Waco]

All done without putting the Wilsons under oath too. Were they afraid of catching someone LYING??

[doug from upland]

That was my first thought.

[mad_as_he$$]

I believe Scooter is a lawyer by trade. I am still surprised that he answered a question directly about something that was years old. I can't tell you what I said to my wife on October 15, 2005 at 14:30 - even though there is a record that we talked on the phone. Make them come up with notes that "refresh" your memory.

[zerosix]

Could he plead guilty, cry into the cameras and claim he was "abused as a child?"

[AmishDude]

Possibly. My guess is that Wells was thinking "appeal" since the beginning.

[Preachin']

"No way 11 DCers found him not guilty so I would say anything other than a hung jury is bad news."

For sure. I think that they have been digging this last week just to see how bad they can lay it on him.

[Peach]

His wife must be a wreck. Prayers for both of them.