[TChad]

If the Martha Stewart and Scooter Libby cases are any guide, young Master Kernel will be "going away" for about three years.

Stewart only had to serve five months behind bars plus five months of home confinement.

[libstripper]

Stewart's offense, false statements to FBI agents, with no underlying offense to cover up, was a lot less serious than Kernell's attemted destruction of evidence that was undertaken to hide and destroy evidence of an actual crime for which he was convicted and, IIRC, Libby received two or three years plus a $250,000 fine for perjury regarding a non-crime. Thus, my comparison of those two cases to this one is valid

[libstripper]

According tio Wikipedia, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Phillips_(judge)

Judge Phillips was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2002, meaning Kernell probably doesn’t have a very friendly sentencing judge.