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Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell may be appealing his two-year prison sentence for corruption charges, but he’ll have to report to prison during that process, a court ruled today.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit rejected McDonnell’s request to stay out of prison while he and his lawyers appeal his sentence with the Supreme Court, the Post reports. It was almost a year ago that McDonnell, and his wife Maureen McDonnell, were convicted of accepting more than $165,000 in bribes in the form of trips, loans, and gifts from Jonnie Williams Sr., the former CEO of Star Scientific.

McDonnell was convicted of 11 counts and sentenced to two years in prison while his wife was sentenced to a year and a day.

Though the Court of Appeals said that he’s to report to prison, McDonnell still has one last chance to keep his freedom: asking the Supreme Court. As his legal team works on his appeal, he can file a petition to the Court to ask for his freedom. From the Post:

But unless the Supreme Court intervenes, experts said, the case will get its final, formal stamp in seven days, then be sent back to a lower court judge to pick a date by which the former governor has to report to prison.

According to legal experts, McDonnell could be behind bars within a few months.