After one night in the jail Madoff's lawyers are asking an appeals

[malaise]

court to reinstate his bail and house arrest.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Boo fucking hoo!!
Suck it up you fugging criminal.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52C57L20090313
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for Bernard Madoff argued that a U.S. court erred in jailing him pending sentencing and will ask an appeals court to reinstate his bail and house arrest, according to court papers filed on Friday.

Madoff, 70, was jailed on Thursday after pleading guilty to running the biggest investment fraud in Wall Street history.

A three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York will hear oral arguments on March 19 on two motions by Madoff's lawyers, a court official said.

One motion aims to suspend an order made at Thursday's plea proceeding by U.S. District Judge Denny Chin to revoke Madoff's $10 million bail. Madoff was arrested last December 11.

The panel will also hear a motion from the lawyers to reinstate bail conditions so Madoff can return to house arrest in his $7 million Manhattan penthouse.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. I don't think he'll get out,

unless a physician can produce evidence that his health is being damaged by being held in that particular slammer, where the medical care might not be as good as it is in a totally residential prison.

There was talk for a while that he had a terminal illness, and that's why he busted himself to his sons.

I smell Ken Lay all over again....................

[liberal N proud]

9. If he mysteriously dies someone had better check the box this time

Make sure it is really him.

[monmouth]

2. He pleaded guilty, there is no presumption of innocence. He will eat

bologna sandwiches and drink bug juice. It is so written....LOL.

[peacetalksforall]

3. OK Bernie, come on out and spend your money - do your part to save the economy you stole.

[DCKit]

4. He won't spend it. He's been trying to hide and protect what's left.

He's already admitted to several felonies, so he's going to spend time in prison anyway. May as well do some time now so he gets "time served."

Given that the average white collar criminal spends 18 months behind bars, there's a good chance Bernie may get out in time to enjoy his remaining golden years on the $$$ he's already diverted to family and friends.

[peacetalksforall]

11. If Homeland Security is doing their job -they will know who has it and how they got it and they

will keep it a secret for the right wing king-serf agenda pushers.

Is Chertoff still there?

[skooooo]

5. Can you imagine....

..being 70 years old and living your life with every luxery imaginable, and then having to spend the night in a cold jail...with a hard bed....maybe one thin blanket....and none of your possessions around you?

It would suck pretty bad. Let that be a lesson to you, kids.

[malaise]

6. You kids

Hahahahahhaha - I wish.

Still he must have had a night of hell. I wish him many more...and I'm betting he has no access to those nice prescription sleeping pills.

[skooooo]

8. I dunno...

I think rich people still find a way to get around some of the rules, even in jail, don't you?

[malaise]

14. Probably

With enough money you can buy many people

[burythehatchet]

7. You don't even have to be 70 and a billionnaire

that is some cold hard cement.

[skooooo]

10. Don't you think they gave him..

..the best cell available? I have a hard time thinking he has it as bad as the average schmuck that gets thrown in the slammer.

[Greyhound]

12. And that's the problem, isn't it? Even when one of the parasites does get caught,

we feel that somehow they are not deserving of the punishment we mete out to "average schmucks".

This monster has caused far more pain, suffering, and death than some asshole that holds up a 7-11.

[DemoTex]

13. Lester Maddox's dream-come-true: Inmate Bernie Madoff.

While governor of Georgia 'ole "Pick-Ax" Maddox was asked what it would take to improve Georgia's infamous prisons. "A higher-class of prisoner," Lester replied. Here he is Lester: Bernie-the-Blue-Blood Madoff of the Upper East Side, the Hamptons, Palm Beach, and the South of France.