Last week, the judge presiding over Scooter Libby’s case said he was confused: the president’s commutation of Libby’s sentence had eliminated the jail time, but left in place the two-year period of supervised release that was to follow incarceration. By law, supervised release follows a prison sentence .It wasn’t immediately clear how to deal with that, so the judge asked the two parties to weigh in on how they thought this should be resolved. There have been whispers that Libby might not even have to serve his two years of probation as a result of the discrepancy.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180439