Posted on 02/18/2020 9:52:50 AM PST by yesthatjallen
A federal judge on Tuesday refused to delay Roger Stone's sentencing amid the fallout over the Trump administration's decision to intervene in the case against the president's longtime ally.
The sentencing will move forward on Thursday at its originally scheduled time, the judge said, despite a new effort from Stone's defense team to get a new trial.
"I think that delaying this sentence would not be a prudent thing to do under all of the circumstances," U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, said during a telephone conference with the two sides.
The original team of prosecutors withdrew from the case last week after the Justice Department reduced their sentencing recommendation of seven to nine years in prison for Stone, who was convicted in November of lying to Congress and witness tampering.
Stone's defense team asked for a new trial in a sealed motion filed last week. It asked the judge on Tuesday to delay sentencing while she decides whether to grant a new trial. The new prosecution team, from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., argued in favor of moving forward with the sentencing hearing as planned.
Jackson said that she has not decided whether to have a hearing on the defense motion, but said that it would be best to move forward with Thursday's hearing and delay the sentence from going into effect until the motion is decided.
It's unclear what grounds Stone's legal team is citing in its request for a new trial, but one of the lawyers acknowledged to The Hill last week that it was investigating the social media activity of a member of the jury.
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And if she isn't smart? Then what?
The sentencing will be Thursday. No delay.
Durham is Bill Barr's Huber. He is not going to do a damn thing.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson is another Obama appointed judge and exhibits the same mentality as all the rest. Watch the sentence she imposes.
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