Posted on 07/13/2020 9:51:17 AM PDT by 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.
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I can't remember.
Na, this is a nothingburger.
Dear Judge,
No jail.
No supervision.
No fine.
Capisce?
Signed DJT
“The President is commuting Roger Stone sentence”.
Full stop, nothing else. Anything that Berman orders as punishment is void.
Because Roger Stone will be appealing his conviction the deep state is in a panic and must stop Stone at all costs. Why?
Stone will use discovery to prove that the Wikileaks DNC email leaks did not come from Russia, but rather from an internal leaker, probably Seth Rich. Discovery will prove that the deep state knew this from day one and the entire Eeyore Muleface investigation will be proved to be a criminal sham that was part of the soft coup. Many deep state operatives could go to prison.
Maybe the memo is mailed when we are 61 but we don’t get it until we are 81 or something
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.
It seems unfair that all juries in DC are full of adherents to one party. It means every defendant who is a Republican will be treated harsher than every defendant that is a Democrat.
Got it
For the record, Roger Stone is an “old” 71. Bad health.
Hanlon’s razor
No “jury of your peers” in DC for Conservatives.
Grounds for mistrial?
I do no recall a judge posing a similar request when a crook by the name of Marc Rich was pardoned. Does anyone else remember ????
Trump’s Attorney General thought so.
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Yep, no surprise there. This from an AG who hasn’t charged a single person with anything associated with Spygate despite being surrounded by a sea of evidence. An 8th grader could have put together a compelling case by now.
Trump should go to her courtroom and ask her what part of commutation she fails to understand, then invite her to go through the sentence point by point, prison, fine, other conditions and commute each point as she describes it. Then ask her if she has any more questions, tell her to have a nice day and walk out surrounded by his secret service agents.
That dog should be impeached, a pure excuse for a judge , just a political hack.
WTH?!
Yes or otherwise she could put him in prison at any time to serve any of the remaining 24 months if he were to violate any of the conditions of probation/ supervised release.
I agree with you, but also suspect that Berman may try to enhance whatever remaining elements are available.
I can’t believe that this isn’t already settled law. Either a commutation is complete, meaning no further punishment, or it would be specified if some part of the sentence was to remain. But, I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t know. Seems like it should be straightforward, though.
In my mind, no.
However, when it comes to legalities, the devil is always in the details, and I would think that President Trump and his team have this answer ready to go, already.
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