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Stone files motion demanding judge recuse herself from ruling on new trial request
The Washington Times ^ | Saturday, February 22, 2020 | Jeff Mordock

Posted on 02/22/2020 8:35:17 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Attorneys for Roger Stone late Friday filed a motion arguing the federal judge who sentenced him to more than three years in prison should recuse herself from deciding his request for a new trial.

Defense attorneys said Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s statements just before sentencing Stone Thursday afternoon show she’s already made up her mind about whether a juror was biased against the longtime GOP operative.

Stone is seeking a new trial based on social media posts by the forewoman in his trial, Tomkea Hart, saying she never should have been allowed on the jury because of Twitter posts mocking Stone’s arrest. She has also called Trump supporters racists.

Moments before Judge Jackson handed down Stone’s sentence on Thursday afternoon, she praised the jury for their work in the case.

While accusing Stone’s attorneys of raising a “Who cares?” defense, Judge Jackson gave a lengthy speech expressing her disgust with that argument.

“The jurors who served with integrity under difficult circumstances cared. The American people cared. And I cared,” she told the courtroom.

Stone’s legal team says such emphatic statements prove Judge Jackson has prejudged his new trial bid.

“The Court’s ardent conclusion of ‘integrity’ indicates an inability to reserve judgment on an issue which has yet been heard,” his attorneys wrote in a filing just before midnight Friday.

“The premature statement blessing the ‘integrity of the jury’ undermines the appearance of impartiality and presents a strong bias for recusal,” the continued.

Ms. Hart, a former Democratic congressional candidate and anti-Trump activist, has become a focal point for Stone’s supporters.

President Trump weighed in this week saying she should have been barred from sitting on the jury.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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To: WaltStuart
Who could start the legal effort to remove & disbar the judge?
The House of Representatives. They’ll be right on it . . . </sarcasm>


41 posted on 02/22/2020 2:39:31 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: Hostage

Thanks for the clarification. I am a scientist, not a lawyer...


42 posted on 02/22/2020 3:21:25 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: richardtavor

I am a scientist also but learned about law because lawyers in general suck.

“99% of lawyers give the other 1% a bad name.”

And what’s frightening for us is how social movements are influencing our rigorous scientific communities.

Science is becoming a venue for voting.


43 posted on 02/22/2020 3:30:02 PM PST by Hostage
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To: WaltStuart

No one is going to remove and disbar the judge. There legal system doesn’t operate based on our fantasies. It doesn’t work that way.


44 posted on 02/22/2020 3:53:07 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams

No one is going to remove and disbar the judge. There legal system doesn’t operate based on our fantasies. It doesn’t work that way.

Likely true.

However, given Trump’s efforts, we can hope justice increases and pours down like a cloudburst on a beleaguered land.


45 posted on 02/22/2020 3:57:22 PM PST by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: WaltStuart

Trump also , unlike his predecessors, will point out the two tiered system, and call out these political hacks.

They may win in the courtroom short term, but longer term with a re election hopefully he can rid the system of fools like this one.


46 posted on 02/22/2020 4:13:12 PM PST by patriotspride
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To: WaltStuart

Sounds good.


47 posted on 02/22/2020 4:23:36 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: MayflowerMadam
This juror Hart was chosen to get free advertising/name recognition when she next runs for office. Police state tactic. I wonder, who are the back room boys running the Democratic Socialist party?
48 posted on 02/23/2020 10:50:59 AM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and our forests)
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