Convicted Virginia ex-governor asks to stay free pending high court appeal

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Lawyers for McDonnell, a one-time rising star in the Republican Party, filed the motion in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. A three-judge panel of the court in July upheld McDonnell's 11 convictions. McDonnell, 61, "remains neither a flight risk nor a threat to public safety, and the questions presented by his case remain 'substantial,' notwithstanding that a panel of this Court has rejected them," the 23-page filing said.

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