A lawyer for Stone filed a formal notice Thursday asking the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to review the case.
President Donald Trump’s longtime political adviser Roger Stone is appealing his conviction and three-year-plus prison sentence for seeking to impede congressional and FBI investigations into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016.
A lawyer for Stone filed a formal notice Thursday asking the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to review the case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller that led to trial last November where a jury found Stone guilty on all seven felony charges he faced.
The new filing doesn’t offer arguments against Stone’s convictions or sentence, but defense attorney Seth Ginsberg specifically included in the appeal U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s ruling earlier this month denying Stone’s bid for a new trial based on claims of juror misconduct and bias.
Stone’s lawyers argued that the forewoman of the jury, Tomeka Hart, misled the court by failing to disclose social media posts about the Mueller investigation. But Jackson ruled that Hart hadn’t lied to the court. And the judge said Stone’s lawyers could have found those posts during jury selection, but they conceded they never did that sort of research.
Jackson had ordered that Stone not be required to surrender to server his three-year, four-month prison sentence any earlier than Thursday, but his attorneys did not file any motion Thursday to ask that he be allowed to remain free pending appeal.
It is unclear how soon the federal Bureau of Prisons might order Stone to report to jail. Normally, that would happen within a month or two, but due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, many federal prisons have stopped or slowed the process of accepting new inmates.
Stone’s appeal likely won’t be resolved for months, probably not until after the November election. However, a stay motion prompted by Stone being given a date to report to prison would almost certainly be ruled on the D.C. Circuit within days or weeks.
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A lawyer for Roger Stone filed a formal notice today asking the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to review his casehttps://t.co/y6jDaxEw9W
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