I do not believe the conviction is deemed legally final until the sentencing phase is complete. In any event, the prosecutors are in a big hurt locker now since the FISA facts will have to be produced since they were likely used to set up and sack Flynn. This is a big deal since the case and conviction may be tainted if the court determines that the surveilled conversations relied on were obtained through a fraudulently obtained FISA warrant, i.e., the FISA application presented to the FISA court included phony dossier facts that the affiant knew or had reason to know was fabricated and thereby perpetrated a fraud on the FISA court.
“This is a big deal since the case and conviction may be tainted if the court determines that the surveilled conversations relied on were obtained through a fraudulently obtained FISA warrant, i.e., the FISA application presented to the FISA court included phony dossier facts that the affiant knew or had reason to know was fabricated and thereby perpetrated a fraud on the FISA court.”
Winner, winner chicken dinner!!
I have zero doubt Mueller wants to nail Trump and nail him hard. Unduly hard.
However, at this point in the game, Mueller might be feeling like he’s running out of options to extricate himself, and his team, with their liberty and pensions intact.
I see lots of guilty people in the Special Counsel’s investigation; unfortunately, they all appear to be on his team....