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FAME FOOTNOTE

While we are talking about our two or three or four tiered legal system where the rich and/or famous get a ride, here is another one.

I missed this.

The Libby judge commented on the many letters he recieved from the famous about the sentence The Scoot was going to recieve.

The judge, Reggie B. Walton of Federal District Court in Washington, said he would be pleased to see similar efforts for defendants less famous than Mr. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

“The court trusts,” Judge Walton wrote, in a footnote longer than the order itself, that the brief for Mr. Libby “is a reflection of these eminent academics’ willingness in the future to step up to the plate and provide like assistance in cases involving any of the numerous litigants, both in this court and throughout the courts of our nation, who lack the financial means to fully and properly articulate the merits of their legal positions.”

“The court,” he added, “will certainly not hesitate to call for such assistance from these luminaries.”

As we now know, Walton (a GWBush appointee incidentally) had another point of view.

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