Convicted ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will remain a free man until at least December — thanks to a panel of appeals court judges who said he deserves a second shot at an appeal of his bribery conviction while remaining free on bail.

Silver had been scheduled to surrender to prison Friday after he was convicted at his corruption retrial of pocketing $4 million in bribes as one of Albany’s most powerful politicians, on a par with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and ex-head of the state Senate Dean Skelos.

Thanks to Wednesday’s appeals court ruling, Silver could avoid starting his seven-year sentence until the end of the year, if not longer, based on the “expedited” appeals schedule outlined by the judges.

In fast-tracking his appeal, the three-judge panel set a deadline for all the paperwork to be in by Dec. 3. A panel of judges could hear the case at any time after that.

Silver, 74, has not spent a single day in prison since he was arrested in 2015 for lining his pockets through two schemes, including sending half a million dollars in state grants to a cancer doctor who was sending him lucrative patient referrals.

His first conviction was overturned by the same appeals court due to errors in the jury instructions tied to a US Supreme Court ruling in 2016 that narrowed the definition of public corruption.