A procedural muddle kept Lynne Stewart out of prison for another day, but even as she prepared to surrender today, the possibility remains that one or more judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit may want to revisit her controversial sentence en banc.
Despite the Second Circuit’s decision Monday directing Judge John G. Koeltl to revoke Ms. Stewart’s bail and order her to “surrender forthwith” to begin serving her sentence, it was, for a moment, unclear whether Judge Koeltl had the authority to issue that order without a mandate from the Second Circuit.
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