Judge rejects Roger Stone request for a new trial
by Jerry Dunleavy
| February 12, 2020 06:07 PM
The federal judge handling Roger Stone’s criminal case rejected the GOP operative’s request for a new trial, a newly unsealed court ruling shows.
Judge Amy Jackson, the Obama appointee who handled Stone’s case for nearly a year and presided over the two-week jury trial last November, rejected Stone’s claim that he was entitled to a new trial following his defense team’s allegations of “bias†regarding one of the jurors.
According to the judge’s ruling, unsealed on Wednesday afternoon, Stone’s argument that a new trial was warranted hinged on two main claims about why the juror, whose identity was concealed in the filing, should have been removed. The first was because the juror is employed at a division of the Internal Revenue Service, which Stone claimed “works hand-in-hand with the Department of Justice prosecuting criminal tax matters.†The second was because Stone claimed the juror “violated the court’s order to avoid media coverage of the case.â€
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