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...Roeder was sentenced to 24 months of probation. The conviction was overturned on appeal the next year when a higher court said the police search of his car had been illegal. Authorities have yet to confirm that the present suspect was the man in question...
...results so that Franken could take his seat on Capitol Hill, would be very hard for Coleman to overcome. Pawlenty has said that under such an order, he would have little choice but to sign the certification, but Coleman has made no promise that he wouldn't try to appeal to the highest court in the land. "The only caveat would be if the U.S. Supreme Court ordered cert and issued a stay in a certificate, which I find highly implausible - it would enrage the Senate and appear blatantly political," says Norm Ornstein, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise...
...That much was clear on Monday, as the Minnesota Supreme Court heard an hour of oral arguments on Coleman's second appeal of a statewide recount that took away his initial lead of 215 votes and handed the advantage to Franken. The January recount had given Franken a 225-vote lead, and a three-judge panel expanded that lead to 312 votes in March, deciding Coleman's first appeal in Franken's favor. No one knows when the state's supreme court will issue its decision on Coleman's second appeal, but legal experts say it should be fairly soon...
...ruling in favor of Franken without a certification order would leave Coleman more room to either appeal to the Supreme Court's October session or to start a new case in federal court - both processes that would take months to run their course. Some GOP Senators, including Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, have encouraged Coleman to push ahead no matter what the decision. But such a move, particularly in federal court, might also backfire, warns Don Kettl, dean of the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. "It's unclear what case Coleman could make that he hasn...
...decision in Coleman's favor would send the case back to lower courts to reinterpret the standard for including absentee ballots. "The trial and appeal were based on the fact that different counties counted the ballots differently," Ben Ginsberg, a lawyer for Coleman who also represented George W. Bush in the 2000 Florida recount, tells TIME. "Whether or not a voter's vote counts shouldn't depend on where they live." (See the top 10 unfortunate political one-liners...