There's no realistic grounds for appeal, probably not even in a country with a more lenient system for appealing criminal convictions. In America, forget it.

He's been convicted, he's gonna stay in jail.

I think parent has a point - I'd love to know if he can potentially buy more time out of jail by forcing an appeal, then requesting bail in the interim, even if it is expected to lose the appeal or is downright dismissed.

It sounds like its plausible, but i'd like to know for a fact

Yet his right to appeal is a right that he (and all convicted) have. The likelihood of success doesn't determine whether or not he can file for it.

I think what TillE was talking about wasn't the likelihood of a successful appeal, but whether or not he'll stay in prison until the appeal is completed.

Perhaps, but I just can't see that as written.

> There's no realistic grounds for appeal

Realistic grounds for appeal aren't required to file an appeal.

They are required to stay out of custody while that appeal is pending, though.

I wonder how posting bond works post-conviction (pre-appeal). As in sourcing of funds, as now you're in a limbo of reasonable doubt about how you made your money (and in this case, his parents also shared in the largesse).

They'll also figure in how likely they think he is to skip out and flee the country or something. He very likely has the money to do it stashed away somewhere, so the question is would he be willing to?

I don't know how that would play out, but he isn't exactly looking good, character-wise.

> so the question is would he be willing to?

To me, probably. He exhibits much of the same traits as Elizabeth Holmes in terms of perspective on his own intelligence and entitlement.

She surrendered her passport, without mentioning she had or had access to another one, and was caught planning to leave for Mexico with a one way ticket and no accommodation booked, and then tried to claim it was "for a friend's destination wedding" (which shouldn't even have mattered - the surrender of the passport meant she was forbidden from leaving the country, regardless the reason).

That's hilarious considering neither Mexico nor US checks passports when you walk into Mexico in CA/az west except maybe San Ysidro crossing. She literally could have walked across and nobody would know, instead she did the dumbest thing possible of buying a one way last minute air ticket on a flagged passport. That would have triggered some cursory check for anybody let alone Holmes.

How the hell people this dumb become CEOs.