Jeff Skilling got a sentence twice as long as other Enron convicts. Enron's former chief executive is now serving 24 years in the slammer but he has an appeal underway.

Now there are suggestions, reported here, that Skilling could walk. Mind you, some of it's coming from Harvard Business School professor Malcolm S Salter who is not an attorney. Still, there are warnings of signs that the Enron mastermind, who lied about earnings and misled investors, could get out of jail with the appeals court identifying shortcomings in Skilling's conviction and the court allowing his attorney to file a brief more than four times than what's normally permitted.

Still, if it happens, it will be politically loaded. Watch this space.