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 Jacksons statements just before sentencing Stone Thursday afternoon show shes 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 Stones arrest. She has also called Trump supporters racists.
Moments before Judge Jackson handed down Stones sentence on Thursday afternoon, she praised the jury for their work in the case.
While accusing Stones 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.
Stones legal team says such emphatic statements prove Judge Jackson has prejudged his new trial bid.
The Courts 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 Stones supporters.
President Trump weighed in this week saying she should have been barred from sitting on the jury.
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The House of Representatives. Theyll be right on it . . . </sarcasm>
Thanks for the clarification. I am a scientist, not a lawyer...
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.
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.
No one is going to remove and disbar the judge. There legal system doesnt operate based on our fantasies. It doesnt work that way.
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Likely true.
However, given Trump’s efforts, we can hope justice increases and pours down like a cloudburst on a beleaguered land.
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.
Sounds good.
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