Sheldon Silver could get third trial as panel reviews conviction

[Madmallard]

A three-judge appeals panel took a hard, and unusually long look Wednesday at ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s appeal of his second conviction over $4 million in bribes — leaving open the chance that he could get yet a third trial.

The panel spent more than an hour hearing out Silver’s prosecutors and lawyers, and asked multiple questions on whether a quid-pro-quo was sufficiently proven.

Circuit Judge Richard J. Sullivan said a description by prosecutors of what Silver promised to do in return for alleged bribes was “pretty squishy.”

https://nypost.com/2019/03/13/sheldon-silver-could-get-third-trial-as-panel-reviews-conviction/

 

[masterswimmer]

Silver knows how to game the system as well as anyone. He'll keep these appeals going until he joins RBG in the cryogenics lab.

 

[Target]

Has he spent any time in jail yet?

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Has he spent any time in jail yet?

Does any dem?

 

[oc shooter]

he's never ever going to the coop

 

[Jmac00]

The EX-NYPD Commissioner is asking for a Special prosecutor to go after AG Cy Vance after Vance announced he was going to go after Manifort, essentially vowing, that Manifort will die in jail because hes afraid trump may pardon Manifort. Talk about vindictive over reach

The Ex NYPD commissioner is saying that Vance almost never convicts a democrat, but goes after any republican with unbridled abandon

so there is a double standard working here. I suspect Shelly silver won't spend much time in jail, if any

 

[carpediem]

Monkeyface will likely pardon him anyway.

 

[Burzum]

The fact that our campaign laws (written by scoundrels) are that vague is a problem, it is very f-n simple, if you give a candidate money above a certain trivial amount it is because you want something.

Anyone who has ever worked in a legislator's office (or elected executive branch member's office) knows how this goes, big donors get their calls/concerns personally addressed, the rest get the form letter.