EXCLUSIVE LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO: What Will Happen to Scooter?
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When we said Scooter'd get 24 months earlier, how could we be so sure? Because, well, we asked a lawyer. And he responded with a billion words explaining, in great detail, precisely what will happen to Mr. Scooter Libby. Here's the conclusion: The Judge will likely grant Scooter's request to remain out for self-surrender, which usually means 6-10 weeks of freedom, but it's a hell of a lot better than being taken into custody at sentencing and getting to the prison by way of a half dozen local jails along the way over a few weeks. Expect Scooter to also plea at sentencing that he's got a drug or alchohol abuse history, allowing him to ask that he be ordered into the Residential Drug Abuse Program (often called the 500 Hour Program or RDAP) which will scrap off a few months of his sentence (6 to 12) and ensure that a few months more (usually 6) are spent in a halfway house rather than a prison. He also gets 54 days of good time credit for every 12 months served, he'll be out in a little more than a year.
EXCLUSIVE LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO: What Will Happen to Scooter?
EXCLUSIVE LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO: What Will Happen…
EXCLUSIVE LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO: What Will Happen to Scooter?
When we said Scooter'd get 24 months earlier, how could we be so sure? Because, well, we asked a lawyer. And he responded with a billion words explaining, in great detail, precisely what will happen to Mr. Scooter Libby. Here's the conclusion: The Judge will likely grant Scooter's request to remain out for self-surrender, which usually means 6-10 weeks of freedom, but it's a hell of a lot better than being taken into custody at sentencing and getting to the prison by way of a half dozen local jails along the way over a few weeks. Expect Scooter to also plea at sentencing that he's got a drug or alchohol abuse history, allowing him to ask that he be ordered into the Residential Drug Abuse Program (often called the 500 Hour Program or RDAP) which will scrap off a few months of his sentence (6 to 12) and ensure that a few months more (usually 6) are spent in a halfway house rather than a prison. He also gets 54 days of good time credit for every 12 months served, he'll be out in a little more than a year.