Judge orders government to explain 'scope' of Roger Stone commutation (Berman)

Fox News ^ | 13 July 2020 | Brooke Singman

[Magnatron]

A federal judge on Monday ordered the government to explain the “scope” of President Trump’s commutation of longtime GOP operative Roger Stone, including whether the move only involved the sentence of incarceration, or also the period of supervised release.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the government to provide the court by Tuesday, July 14, “a copy of the Executive Order commuting the defendant’s sentence and to address the question of the scope of the commutation, in particular, whether it involves the sentence of incarceration alone or also the period of supervised release.”

In February, Jackson sentenced Stone to 40 months in prison, along with 24 months of supervised release and a $20,000 fine.

The filing, signed by Jackson, comes after the White House announced Friday that the president signed an Executive Grant of Clemency commuting what they called the “unjust sentence” of Stone, just days before the longtime political operative was slated to report to prison to serve more than three years for charges stemming from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Stone was set to report to prison on July 14 to serve 40 months. He was sentenced in February to more than three years in prison after being convicted in November 2019 on seven counts of obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements to Congress. Stone, however, has appealed his conviction and continues to deny any wrongdoing.

[PIF]

71 is elderly? Oh boy. The memo must be in the mail

[JohnnyP]

If the judge had tossed the jury foreman, replacing her with a random denizen of DC, the result would have been the same, except then we couldn’t bitch about it.

[Diogenesis]

a new ticket for seditionists?
The Seditionist Part of Satan/DS
at least it would be honest, which they are not.

KING SULLIVAN & QUEEN BERMAN -
BOW TO YOUR JUDGES WHO RULE FOREVER 2020

[billyboy15]

“But, like Sullivan, she’s a leftist hack who could very well be looking for a loophole to drag Stone back to jail...”

My understanding is in Federal cases the presidents authority to pardon or commute is absolute.

Full expalnation here.

https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R46179.html

[upchuck]

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson is like Facebook, EVIL to her core.

[Starboard]

Reasonable request.

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Was 40 months in prison, along with 24 months of supervised release and a $20,000 fine “reasonable too?

[Ann Archy]

Nothis is the LEFTYJEWESS IN DC!.

[1Old Pro]

Here’s the scope - FULL commutation

[DoodleDawg]

If Judge Berman would read the Constitution she’d find that the ‘scope’ of Stone’s commutation is none of her business.

[kiryandil]

The seditionists are getting bold in the district court of the District of Columbia.

We've got Dirty Emmet flipping off the DOJ and the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.

Then district "judge" Tanya Chutkan flips off a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals [the Seventh Circuit].

Now we have Amy Berman Freisler, Nazi hanging judge for ClownBammy, challenging the commutation power of the President of the United States.

They'd look good in a nice line like the Booth conspirators...

[etcb]

Just pardon the guy and tell her to FO

That would get her out of the picture, but since Stone is still appealing his conviction, wouldn't it be better to let that go forward. The prosecution as well as the judge's handling of the case needs to be reviewed by the higher courts.

[Truth29]

Somehow, some way, these judges need to be told FU and suffer career ending consequences for their partisan zealotry.

[hanamizu]

Just pardon the guy and tell her to FO

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I wondered about this but another story from CNN argued that NY should prosecute Stone since they recently passed a law that allowed NY to prosecute under state any one “pardoned” by a President who might have information on a President. Maybe by commuting the sentence, PDJT is sparing Stone a hassle from NY.

I remember the woman who is now the NY Attorney General campaigning on the platform of going after Trump and his family.

[Regulator]

That’s exactly what she’s doing. Pulling a bureaucratic stunt to try to throw a wrench into the clear purpose of the commutation.

Splitting hairs so she can start an argument over details, kick the can down the road, somehow recover the scam she ran.

Think she’d do this if the commutation was to Cletus T. Bankrobber, hard luck story of the week?

[Gay State Conservative]

If,by chance,the President erred in the wording of the commutation and,as a result,Stone's still required to report to some BOP official periodically the Swamp Creatures will try to trap him on some technicality and,having done so,put him behind bars.

[hal ogen]

The judge is a co-opted political-operative seditionist? Who knew???

[newzjunkey]

Since a co-worker's BIL died of covid at 71, I wouldn't be too snarky about Stone going to prison not being a death sentence since it's been wildly stated he has several health issues and many prisoners are getting early release because covid.

There are lots of people who don't even make it to 71 even in the 21st century.

[gibsonguy]

Well yes that is true but the fact Bernan let it happen tells you how these bastards have no worries about appearances whatsoever.

[kiryandil]

Think she’d do this if the commutation was to Cletus T. Bankrobber, hard luck story of the week?

She definitely wouldn't do it if her god ClownBammy commuted the sentence of a Marxist terrorist...

[noexcuses]

If there was a technically, say probation wasn’t included in the original commutation order, couldn’t Trump just issue another commutation for that?