The Office of the U.S. Attorney is urging a federal circuit court to reject Conrad Black’s request for bail pending the resolution of his appeal:

In a 21-page filing, Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, to reject Lord Black’s request for bail, saying that even though the U.S. Supreme Court has thrown his convictions into question, the former media baron’s three convictions on mail and wire fraud and one count of obstruction of justice would not be affected.
At the same time, Mr. Fitzgerald argued that even if there was a substantial question on the fraud convictions, the obstruction conviction was itself “an independent basis to deny the bail motion because there is no substantial question over that conviction’s validity.” The high court did not deal specifically with obstruction.