George Ryan's Final Appeal Denied

By Margaret Lyons in News on May 27, 2008 4:16PM

The United States Supreme Court denied George Ryan's appeal today, meaning our imprisoned former governor will stay just that: imprisoned.

Ryan's lawyer argued that Ryan didn't receive a fair trial after alternate jurors stepped in during deliberations, but the court apparently rejected that suggestion and without comment declined to hear Ryan's case. This is the end of the road for Ryan's appeals process, so it looks like he'll be serving out the rest of his 6-and-1/2-year sentence.

Can a modern-day Dickens start working on A Corruption Carol in which Blago goes to sleep and is haunted by images of Ryan in shackles? And Patrick Fitzgerald is Bob Cratchit? [AP, Reuters]