drink it in folks for the first time in his life Roger Stone has been ordered by a court of law to shut the fuck up https://t.co/1kTpgZ9vNT
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) February 15, 2019
While the gag order is limited, all parties are still required to abide by a local rule that prohibits making public statements that are likely to have a “materially prejudicial effect”.
— Charlie Gile (@CharlieGileNBC) February 15, 2019
Read the entire filing here: https://t.co/THPK5WrTXT
— Charlie Gile (@CharlieGileNBC) February 15, 2019
Politico‘s take:
… [T]he judge said [Stone] could keep talking about the case with the caveat that she could change her mind and amend her order “if necessary.”
She also lumped Stone in with all the parties in the case and potential witnesses when they are around the D.C. courthouse. In those circumstances, Jackson cautioned that any comments must not “pose a substantial likelihood of material prejudice to this case” and cannot be “intended to influence any juror, potential juror, judge, witness or court officer or interfere with the administration of justice.”
Jackson concluded her ruling with a warning that Stone should consider that any excessive public comments may come back to bite him.
“While it is not up to the court to advise the defendant as to whether a succession of public statements would be in his best interest at this time, it notes that one factor that will be considered in the evaluation of any future request for relief based on pretrial publicity will be the extent to which the publicity was engendered by the defendant himself,” Jackson wrote…
To paraphrase comedian Ron White: Stone has the right to remain silent, but does he have the ability?
Related reading, from Jeffrey Toobin for the New Yorker, “Roger Stone’s and Jerome Corsi’s Time in the Barrel”:
… The Stone indictment reads like a political black comedy. It stars a pair of mismatched operatives, Stone and the right-wing author Jerome Corsi, who, without formal connections to the Trump campaign, went on a transatlantic quest for dirt. Mueller’s indictment does not charge Stone with any involvement in the hacking, but accuses him of lying to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence about his (and Corsi’s) efforts to pry loose the hacked e-mails from WikiLeaks.
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