The judge overseeing the trial of Roger Stone, the Republican campaign veteran and longtime Trump friend, said Tuesday that she will not delay the sentencing, scheduled for Thursday morning.
In open court, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson spoke by phone with prosecutors and Stone’s lawyers about a recently filed defense motion for a new trial based on a claim that one of the jurors was biased.
One of Stone’s lawyers, Seth Ginsberg, said the motion “goes to the heart of the case” and urged the judge to delay sentencing until a hearing can be scheduled on the motion.
But Jackson refused. “We’ve already put off sentencing once,” she said. “It makes sense to proceed, since there’s no harm to the defense,” a reference to the fact that if she were to grant the motion for a new trial, the sentence would be set aside.
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