Pardon for Scooter Libby?

This blog features a series of regularly updated, brief essays regarding the possible presidential pardon of "Scooter" Libby with an emphasis on history, law and empirical research. The creator is ProfessorP.S. Ruckman, Jr., author of the forthcoming book, Pardon Me, Mr. President: Adventures in Crime, Politics and Mercy .

Monday, November 19, 2007

"Watch List" Update

In with Barry Bonds, out with the Pig! The Pardon Watch List has been updated!

Could be
- Clarence Aaron (drug dealing)
- Willie Mays Aikens (sold drugs to an undercover agent)
- Jose Compean (illegal arrest of an alien)
- John Forte (cocaine)
- Gilmer Hernandez (civil rights violation)
- Scooter Libby (perjury, obstruction of justice)
- David H. McNab (smuggling and money laundering)

- Lance Persson (drug dealing)
- The Pig (tasting so good) X - White House spokesman says "no" (11/18/07)
- Ignacio Ramos (illegal arrest of an alien)

- George Ryan (corruption)
- Jeffrey Skilling (fraud, conspiracy, insider trading)

Long Shots

- Conrad Black (fraud and obstruction of justice)
- Duane Chapman (deprivation of liberty) X - won extradition battle (11/6/07)
- Edwin Edwards (convicted of racketeering)
- Lawrence Hutchins (soldier, murder)
- Ron Isley (tax evasion)
- Jack Johnson (violated the Mann Act)
- Marion Jones (steroids)
- Julius Nasso (conspiracy, extortion)

- Jonathan Pollard (delivering classified information to foreign government)
- Richard Scrushy (corruption)
- Don Siegelman (corruption)
- Martha Stewart (obstruction of justice)


Really Long Shots
- O.Henry (embezzling bank funds)
- John Walker Lindh (terrorism)
- Michael Milken (securities and reporting violations)
- Leonard Pielter (double murder of FBI agents)
- Michael Vick (conspiracy to operate interstate dogfighting ring)

Not Yet Convicted, Altogether Unforgivable, Undeserving of Anything Like Mercy, Should be Deported

- Barry Bonds (charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, also not nice)
- Gary Dahl (invented pet rocks)
- Donald Elbert (invented astro-turf)
- John Frame (defends "contemporary" Christian "music")
- Garry Marshall (produced "Pretty Woman")
- Yoko Ono (you know what she did!)
- Lou Pearlman (created "Backstreet Boys"