I take it that the “discovery phase” would be the key phase of the trial?
I doubt the attorney would follow through with any court action. They just want Stone to hush and quit speaking of Hunter’s crimes. One thing they do not want is discovery.
My first thought was that the discovery phase would be a hoot!
Here in the post-Constitution era of the USA, the judge will simply disallow any evidence that supports Stone's position or shows hunter in a bad light, while allowing past traffic tickets and incidents of detention that Stone had in grammar school to be entered as evidence of his bad character.
The Republic no longer is.