A federal judge on Tuesday refused to delay Roger Stone‘s sentencing amid the fallout over the Trump administration’s decision to intervene in the case against the president’s longtime ally.
The sentencing will move forward on Thursday at its originally scheduled time, the judge said, despite a new effort from Stone’s defense team to get a new trial.
“I think that delaying this sentence would not be a prudent thing to do under all of the circumstances,” U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, said during a telephone conference with the two sides. Continue reading.