Bill Sanderson is reporting for the New York Daily News former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has filed an appeal with the full panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, asking that the four remaining charges against him be thrown out. Silver wants the court to dismiss the parts of his conviction upheld in January by three of that court's 13 judges. Silver’s legal ploy faces long odds, said Rachel Barkow, a professor at NYU School of Law. “It’s such a Hail Mary,” Barkow said. “The Second Circuit in particular just doesn’t like to take cases en banc." And it is especially tough given that the three-judge panel's decision was unanimous, she said. But Silver may be laying grounds for taking the matter up to the U.S. Supreme Court, said attorney Harry Sandick. More appeals extend the time Silver, 76, avoids prison on the four charges that remain against him. Silver was indicted for bribery in Manhattan Federal Court in February 2015. After his first conviction was overturned, he was convicted a second time in May 2018. Read the full story in the Daily News.