A lawyer for Roger Stone filed a formal notice today asking the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to review his case
President Donald Trump’s longtime political adviser Roger Stone is appealing his conviction and three-year-plus prison sentence for seeking to impede congressional and FBI investigations into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016.
Stone’s lawyers argued that the forewoman of the jury, Tomeka Hart, misled the court by failing to disclose social media posts about the Mueller investigation. But Jackson ruled that Hart hadn’t lied to the court. And the judge said Stone’s lawyers could have found those posts during jury selection, but they conceded they never did that sort of research.
It is unclear how soon the federal Bureau of Prisons might order Stone to report to jail. Normally, that would happen within a month or two, but due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, many federal prisons have stopped or slowed the process of accepting new inmates.
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