Here are some of the reactions of sites on my blogrolls talking about today’s verdict in the Scooter Libby trial.

Captain’s Quarters

The case will eventually find its way to an appellate court, where the justices will have plenty of issues on which to chew. Chiefly, the panel should look at the circus which preceded this prosecution and determine whether the lack of any underlying crime should mitigate towards a dismissal. Only when these special-prosecutor cases start getting tossed out will we finally see an end to that plague.

The Uncooperative Blogger

This was just ridiculous, how could an intelligent jury come to this conclusion? I followed the trial enough to know that everyone’s testimony was confusing and contradictory. It is ok for everyone else to be wrong when talking to the FBI or the Grand Jury, but he could not possibly have just been mistaken?

Right Wing News

We now know that Joe Wilson lied about a lot of things and there shouldn’t have ever been a special prosecutor appointed, since there was no underlying crime. Additionally, it does seem plausible that a guy as busy as Libby wouldn’t remember where he heard Plame’s name. Combine that with the really stupid questions the jury was asking, the way this trial has been heavily politicized on the left, and how liberal DC is, and you’ve really got to wonder how fair this trial was for Scooter Libby.

GOP Bloggers

I suggest that Libby receive the same punishment as Clinton for perjury and Berger for stealing national security secrets.

Blue Crab Boulevard

I think the people who will be cheering this verdict might want to step back and think about how this kind of precedent will be used against one of their own in the future.

And it will. Bet on it.

Others:
Sister Toldjah
Outside The Beltway
Stop the ACLU
Blogs for Bush

More to be added, but I have to fix dinner.

Mark Levin on the Libby trial:

This morning the jury didn’t understand two of the counts. Yesterday it didn’t understand what was meant by reasonable doubt. Let me suggest that in the end it still didn’t understand the two counts or reasonable doubt.

Exactly.

Here are the verdicts on the five counts, as I hear or find them:

Guilty on 4 of 5.

• Count 1 – Guilty
• Count 2 – Guilty
• Count 3 – Not Guilty
• Count 4 – Guilty
• Count 5 – Guilty

UPDATE:

Wells said he would ask the court for a new trial by April 13. Such requests are common following criminal convictions.

“Despite our disappointment in the jurors’ verdict, we believe in the American justice system and we believe in the jury system,” Wells told reporters outside the federal courthouse. “We intend to file a motion for a new trial and if that is denied, we will appeal the conviction. We have every confidence that ultimately Mr. Libby will be exonerated…. We intend to keep fighting to establish his innocence.”

Libby will be allowed to remain free while awaiting sentencing, which is set for June 5. [Source]

This will be cleaned up and updated as time and information become available.

Various news sources are announcing that a verdict has been reached in the trial of Scooter Libby. The verdict is scheduled to be read around noon eastern time.

UPDATE: First report from AP (via Yahoo News):

The verdict will be read at 12 noon EST in the courtroom where jurors heard 19 witnesses during the five-week trial. The verdict came on the 10th day of deliberations. The announcement was made by Randall Samborn, a spokesman for special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

Thank you for your coffee, seignor. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca. ~ Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca)

I was reading through the comments at JustOneMinute this morning when the news came out that the judge and lawyers were questioning jurrors regarding the posibility of exposure to information outside the trial. Matt Appuzo has this:

Attorneys and a federal judge began privately questioning each juror in the CIA leak trial Monday after one juror apparently saw or read something about the case over the weekend.

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton has ordered jurors to avoid contact with media coverage of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s trial.

He said Monday that one juror “may have been exposed to information related to this case outside the courtroom, and conceivably others may as a result of that been exposed.”

More when it is available.

The AP Story linked above is now reporting that

A federal judge dimissed a juror in the case against former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Monday, after one juror apparently saw or read something about the case over the weekend.

Commenters at JOM are reporting that defense attorny Wilson is asking that deliberations continue with the remaining 11 jurrors. As I understand it, if either of the two alternates are used than deliberations would have to start from the beginning.

UPDATE:

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton ordered the juror removed, saying “what she had exposure to obviously disqualifies her.” The judge declined to say what information the juror had seen.

Walton said the remaining jurors had not been tainted. He said he would allow deliberations to continue with 11 jurors rather than calling on one of two alternate jurors.

Well, let’s have some coffee and then take a swim. ~ Johnny Weissmuller

Some very random bloggy thoughts:

What’s up with TTLB? Does anyone know?

The comments at JustOneMinute regarding the Libby trial are every bit as good as the posts themselves.

Related: In just under two years, as of this post there are 4,448 comments at bRight & Early. With WordPress that includes trackbacks. JOM has 2,931 comments on the posts currently on their front page, going all the way back to, uh, Saturday.

There are now 215 confirmed blogs in the blogiversary database. 98 sites have the display code! Add yours today. Thanks.

I got my first Text-Link ad this week. Please take a moment and follow the link. It’s at the top of the right sidebar. If you’d like to sell Text-Link ads on your site please click here.

Is that random enough for you?

A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. ~ Alfred Renyi

Closing arguments in the Scooter Libby trial are scheduled to start shortly.

I’m not sure which blogs will be covering the trial from the media room today, but I will be hitting the refresh button at JustOneMinute. The posts there are very interesting, but the comments are addictive. I’ll provide a link as soon as I spot one over there.

Here’s one now.

Kevin Aylward of Wizbang has tagged in for James Joyner as bloggers are covering the Scooter Libby trial. The trial resumes this morning with the continuation of testimony from Cathie Martin.

Next up: Former White House Press Secretary – Ari Fleischer

The trial of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, Scooter Libby, is getting underway. James Joyner of Outside The Beltway is liveblogging the procedings.

The first major news occured during the jury instructions when the judge informed the jurrors that (Quoting Joyner), “Valerie Plame’s actual status with the CIA or the degree to which any revelations made by Scooter Libby put her in danger are totally irrelevant to the facts of this case.”

UPDATE: James has started a new post for the government’s opening argument.

And another post for the defense opening.