Feds: Delay in Roger Stone sentence is following coronavirus-era policy

The Justice Department won't oppose a bid by Roger Stone, the longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, to delay an upcoming prison sentence until September, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Thursday night, citing department-wide policies implemented in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson, though, made clear she isn't accepting Stone's contention at face value. After Stone's initial motion to delay his sentence, Jackson ordered the U.S. attorney's office for Washington, D.C. — which prosecuted the case — to submit its own filing weighing in on the matter and also to provide details about recent coronavirus testing at FCI Jesup, the federal prison in Georgia where Stone is expected to be incarcerated.

“At no point since that original designation has the U.S. Attorney’s Office had any role in or attempted to exert any influence over whether BOP should revise the June 30 surrender date,” the government said in its Thursday night filing. Given the history of Stone’s case, Jackson appears to be deeply distrustful of both sides, demanding detailed justification and written support from the defense and prosecution for the kinds of assertions that judges often accept based solely on a lawyer's say-so.

Attorney General William Barr has rejected the suggestion that politics or Trump favoritism played a role in his decision to overrule Zelinsky and other prosecutors to recommend a lesser sentence for Stone. Trump tweeted just before 3 a.m. the next day that the sentence was unfair, and later that day, a top DOJ official filed a revised sentencing recommendation that left the jail term up to the judge but called the original proposal overly harsh. The four prosecutors who handled the case withdrew, and one resigned from DOJ altogether.

This has to stop! Where the hell is our justice system!

Trump and Co will make sure he doesn't see a single day of jail time. The corrupt Bill Barr will see to that.

Lock him up. NOW!!!

but their boss Trump didn't mind throwing millions of people back to work and putting their lives on the line. If everything Trump says is true than this guy should have nothing to worry about!

SO NO ONE IS GOING TO JAIL RIGHT NOW...is that the justice department's stance? ...or..are only certain people not going to jail...IE: Covidiots cronies!

The long fingers of Barr! DisbarBarr ImpeachBarr

At least that's the excuse.

For all the ill-informed who don't understand how the prisons are impacted by the pandemic: It's because of COVID-19. He's in the demographic.

That Trump mob.

Of course they won’t.

Stone is probably hoping for Flynn's success getting two guilty pleas thrown out as not enough evidence by a Trump appointed judge. Trump cronies get to change the judicial system through Trump-appointed judges and Bill Barr.

I said all along he will never spend a night in jail. It’s so wrong, and it makes a mockery of our so-called “justice system.”

What a surprise.

CORRUPTION IN A BANANA REPUBLIC LOOKS LIKE?

The law. Should be Fair for ALL

VOTE AGAINST EVERY REPUBLICAN ON THE BALLOT!!

Why not the 'twelfth of never?' That's their intent.

Special favors for the Mad King's minions.

Stone talks tough, but he's really a big wimp.

Why not delay it until Covid-29...

You get free medical care while you are in prison so there is no excuse for you not to serve your time.

White privilege

Put that motherfucker away & make room for trump!

Too bad the same 'policies' don't apply to people in cages at the southern border.

Imagine that you are a part of the most famous and powerful crime family in the world, the Trumps. You get charged and found guilty by a jury of your peers but the family boss man Tweets out, “ to such a nice guy, I don’t think so, sleep well Roger”. Imagine!

I’m not deep,is it good or bad?

Zionist shill, just like his boss.

Bill Barr is at it again,

trump fights for only this dude. shake your head and don't vote for a single republican for the rest of your life.

$$ENTITLEMENT$$

Just take him for a walk in the woods.

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