Larry Craig pleaded guilty. He went to court to try to get a judge to overrule *his* guilty plea that in fact was made 2 months after he was charged (so one can hardly say his guilty plea was hasty). The courts in Minneapolis (which is where the Republican National Convention will be held this summer) ruled that when he made his guilty plea he knew what he was doing and wouldn't allow him to withdraw his guilty plea. Senator Craig, who also tried to get out of this thing initially by showing his senator card to the cop, must believe that he is better than you and me. If WE pleaded guilty, unless there was some coercion like a person holding a gun to our heads, it would stick, right? But Senators are Of the Exalted Variety. Now he's asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals to overrule the county judge.

Good luck. The thing with appeals is that the case isn't being tried again, appeals only look for technicalities that would have flawed the case.

"What's the likelihood of success? Even less likely of prevailing in the appeal than he had in prevailing before Porter," Steve Simon, a legal defense expert at the University of Minnesota Law School, said earlier this month.

The appeals court must find there's been an "abuse of discretion" by the trial judge before overturning a ruling