Since his indictment in January 2019, Roger Stone's path to Thursday's sentencing hearing has been anything but ordinary. Stone, 67, has previously taken credit for persuading the president to get into politics and once served as an adviser to Trump's presidential campaign.
Since his indictment in January 2019, Roger Stone's path to Thursday's sentencing hearing has been anything but ordinary. But given his long history as a political dirty trickster, perhaps it should come as no surprise that his legal woes have followed an equally unusual trajectory.
Stone was arrested in a pre-dawn FBI raid on his Florida home on Jan. 25, 2019. In the 10 months leading to his trial, Stone repeatedly made inflammatory comments about the judge overseeing his case and the prosecutors who brought charges. After posting an image to social media with U.S. Judge Amy Berman Jackson apparently shown in the crosshairs of a firearm scope, she issued a gag order preventing him and his legal team from speaking publicly about the case.
Since his conviction, the national interest in Stone's legal fortunes has waned. But that changed earlier this month when Trump unexpectedly weighed in on a sentencing recommendation filed by the four Justice Department prosecutors running Stone's case. Last week, those prosecutors told the court that Stone's crimes and his out-of-court conduct warranted a prison term of seven to nine years.Within hours of their filing that sentencing recommendation, at 1:48 a.m.
Later that day, a new prosecutor on the case filed an amended memorandum arguing that the previous recommendation of seven to nine years"would not be appropriate" -- and instead"defers to the court as to what specific sentence is appropriate," but implored Jackson to take into consideration Stone's"advanced age, health, personal circumstances and lack of criminal history in fashioning an appropriate sentence.
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