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Lord Conrad Black Granted Bail

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Tue Jul 20, 2010 at 11:24:43 AM EST
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Lord Conrad Black has been serving his sentence for honest services fraud since March, 2008. The 7th Circuit just granted his release on bail.

Black’s request for bail followed a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that narrowed the scope of a federal statute used at his trial, returning the Hollinger executive’s case to the appeals court. Black and three associates had been found guilty in the theft of $6.1 million from Hollinger International -- once the world’s third-largest publisher of English-language newspapers -- as they engineered its sale of assets.

The order is here. [Hat tip to Sentencing Law and Policy.]

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    Lord Conrad Black Granted Bail | 3 comments (3 topical)

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    Black is a Canadian citizen (none / 0) (#1)
    by Peter G on Tue Jul 20, 2010 at 01:48:08 PM EST
    Does he have an ICE detainer on him?

    He was Canadian (none / 0) (#2)
    by Natal on Tue Jul 20, 2010 at 04:36:02 PM EST
    but gave his citizenship for the House of Lords seat. So we can't be tainted by his behavior anymore.

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    But vis a vis the USA, (none / 0) (#3)
    by Peter G on Tue Jul 20, 2010 at 04:53:47 PM EST
    he is not a citizen, right? And thus deportable, perhaps, and potentially the subject of paperwork from ICE?  So my question stands, as a problem in getting bail in a US criminal case.

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