Roger Stone, the longtime Republican operative and friend of President Donald Trump, on Thursday appealed his criminal conviction and his 40-month prison sentence.
Jackson rejected the claim jury forewoman Tomeka Hart lied during jury selection and had exhibited such a bias against Trump on social media that she should have been barred from sitting on the panel during Stone's trial.
Evidence at that trial showed that Stone lied to a House committee about talks with Trump's presidential campaign about his efforts to get information from the document disclosure group WikiLeaks about emails stolen by Russian agents from John Podesta, the head of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, and from the Democratic National Committee.
The emails were made public by WikiLeaks in 2016. Disclosures of their contents embarrassed Clinton's campaign and the DNC. Jurors also found that Stone had threatened his associate Randy Credico, a New York comedian, in an effort to get Credico to support his lies to the committee.
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