EXCLUSIVE: What Happened In the Roger Stone Case? 'Prosecutorial Misconduct' Says Defense Lawyer

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EXCLUSIVE: What Happened In the Roger Stone Case? 'Prosecutorial Misconduct' Says Defense Lawyer
Marina Medvin

Posted: Feb 12, 2020 2:05 PM

A day after a nine-year sentencing recommendation for the elderly Roger Stone was filed, Senior DOJ officials immediately distanced themselves from the recommendation. They told CBS News that the prison time recommendation was "extreme, excessive, grossly disproportionate to offenses," and that this is not what was briefed to the DOJ by the assigned prosecutors. Hours later, all four lawyers assigned to the case withdrew, with one, Jonathan Kravis, resigning from the DOJ entirely.

This is unusual, to say the least. Top to bottom, from the start of the case to this shocking end, has been unprecedented. What is going on?

President Trump asked: "Who are the four prosecutors (Mueller people?) who cut and ran after being exposed for recommending a ridiculous nine-year prison sentence to a man that got caught up in an investigation that was illegal, the Mueller Scam, and shouldn't ever even have started?"

I went to federal trial attorney Jesse Binnall for some answers. Binnall defends high-profile clients against political witch-hunts and has defended cases brought by Jonathan Kravis in the past. Currently, Binnall is defending Michael Flynn alongside Sidney Powell.

In your professional opinion, was anything unusual about the Roger Stone case?

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[PeteS in CA]

From the article:

One of the most serious powers of a prosecutor is asking to deprive a defendant of freedom, requesting jail time. I think this [nine-year sentence] was an abuse of their power as prosecutors, to make a recommendation like this without making a departmental approval.

They knew leftist media would celebrate their disobedience and abuse of power. Leftist media has a history of fawning over people who martyr themselves for left-wing causes, just like Sally Yates. I think they wanted to leave the Roger Stone case with a bang.

Or, they did it because they were going rogue, and they didn't care what their supervisors thought. Perhaps because they don't like U.S. Attorney Shea. To them, this case is political, and it's personal. I think they suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. ...

"I was opposite Jonathan Kravis on The Ron Paul Three case, which was the prosecution of three Ron Paul campaign aids in Iowa. It was a politically-driven prosecution targeting three Republican activists.

First, Kravis and his partner violated an immunity agreement ... they signed with a co-defendant in that case, and the judge dismissed the codefendant's case based on prosecutorial misconduct.

Then, Kravis hid exculpatory and impeachment information from my client, Dimitri Kesari.

Kravis' team later violated my client's attorney-client confidentiality, obtaining text message communications between Kessari and me, shockingly producing the conversations to another co-defendant in the case!"

Looks like Kravis has an established record of prosecutorial misconduct (or tolerating his staff doing it). Good riddance!

[Cyber Liberty]

Add to this the revelation the Jury Foreman (!) tweeted recently that she's a far-left anti-Trump partisan and there's a damned good case for declaring a mistrial.