
From Talkleft.com:
Via Marcy Wheeler at Next Hurrah, Scooter Libby has added another lawyer to his defense team, Greg Poe of Robbins, Russell. Laurence Robbins joined earlier to assist with sentencing and appeal issues.
Marcy thinks Poe has been added to try and get Libby out of serving his two year supervised release term. I suspect she's right, although I would expect him to stay on for the duration of Libby's appeal.
Who is Greg Poe and his firm? From Emptywheel:
Greg Poe is from the same firm as Lawrence Robbins (the guy who argued for bond and deigned to tell Judge Walton how Scalia would rule on the Appointments Clause appeal). He was added yesterday, just in time to settle the question of what happens to the supervised release of a felon whose prison sentence has been commuted.
And why would they bring in Poe to deal with this issue?
Greg has tried fourteen federal cases to verdict on behalf of criminal defendants; he has presented oral argument in twelve criminal cases in the federal courts of appeals; and he has successfully persuaded federal district judges to vacate convictions in post-conviction proceedings.
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Greg is a Barrister in the Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court; a member of the United States Sentencing Commission Practitioners Advisory Group; and a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. [my emphasis]
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