You have to hand it to Conrad Black. Two years after he sentenced to six-plus years in the slammer for fraud, he has still been seeking bail pending an appeal. If anyone told he had a snowflake's chance in hell of getting it, he wasn't listening. He still maintains he is innocent.
Now we have reports that US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has rejected his bail application. That leaves Black in jail while his case is being reviewed. No surprises there. In this climate, there is no way the court was going to let the poster boy of corporate greed and crime back on to the streets.
His lawyers say the expect the Supreme Court will hear the appeal by December and rule by June 2010. Black, who will be nearly half way through his sentence by then, shouldn't hold his breath. He won't win.
No doubt he will use the time to write his memoirs, and blame everything on envious prosecutors persecuting him.
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