Presumably Stone's request for a new trial likely will be denied, and he will then file an appeal to the Court of Appeals, and if there's any justice in this country he will get one. Each of us is supposed to get a fair trial when accused of wrong-doing, to include an impartial jury that Stone obviously didn't get. I think Judge Jackson should never have delivered her sentence until a thorough review of the jury and the prosecutors was accomplished. Stone very well might be guilty of the charges brought, but he sure as hell didn't get a fair trial. Consider:
Tomeka Hart even posted specifically about the Stone case before she was selected to sit on the jury, as she retweeted an argument mocking those who considered Stone’s dramatic arrest in a predawn raid by a federal tactical team to be excessive force. She also suggested President Trump and his supporters are racist and praised the investigation conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which ultimately led to Stone’s prosecution.
Meanwhile, it emerged that U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson had denied a defense request to strike a potential juror who was Obama-era press official with admitted anti-Trump views — and whose husband worked at the same Justice Department division that handled the probe leading to Stone’s arrest. And, another Stone juror, Seth Cousins, donated to former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke and other progressive causes, federal election records reviewed by Fox News show.
So not only was the jury “foreperson” a left-wing anti-Trump activist, she was out there tweeting her hatred of Roger Stone before she was picked to sit on the jury judging … Roger Stone. And sitting there on that jury with her was an “Obama-era press official with admitted anti-Trump views — and whose husband worked at the same Justice Department division that handled the probe leading to Stone’s arrest.” Not to mention “another Stone juror, Seth Cousins, donated to former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke and other progressive causes.”
This wasn’t an impartial jury committed to impartial and blind justice. This was political activists leading a legally disguised witch hunt — and one that had not the slightest intention of being fair to Roger Stone. And the four prosecutors? One was a part of the now-infamous Mueller investigation team that was filled with Hillary Clinton supporters and anti-Trump fanatics. They were nothing more than political anti-Trump activists themselves, demanding a sentence for Roger Stone’s alleged crimes of lying and witness tampering that was twice or more as harsh than sentences handed out to rapists and all manner of other serious crimes.
Roger Stone and the Corruption of Justice | The American Spectator | Politics Is Too Important To Be Taken Seriously.
Can anyone look at this and say Stone received a fair and impartial trial? The guy may have been guilty, but we all have the right to a fair and impartial trial, and the ends do not justify the means. Personally, I do not want to to the guilty go free no matter who they are, Repub or Dem, rich or poor, connected or not. But worse than that, I cannot abide the misuse of our justice system for political purposes. Clearly, that is what happened in this case.