Well it looks like George Ryan might be headed to prison after all. Yesterday the Federal Appeals Court upheld his conviction by a vote of 2-1. (The dissenter saying that the jury deliberations were "dysfunctional" and therefore Ryan and co-defendant Larry Warner deserved a new trial.)
Ryan will have to report to prison within 72 hours unless something new happens. The next step for Ryan is to appeal for an Appeals court hearing "en banc". This is supposed to be "rarely granted", but Ryan's appeals bond was also "unusual". Until I see Ryan in an orange jumpsuit, I won't believe that he's actually headed to jail.
In any case, it looks like it's one step closer to justice... Maybe Ryan should have had his state workers go to work for George Bush's Presidential campaign like he did for Phil Gramm.
