Roger Stone sentenced to 40 months in prison Published 1 min ago on February 20, 2020

[turbinetree]

Source: Raw Story

Published 1 min ago on February 20, 2020
By Roxanne Cooper

Donald Trump’s longtime aide Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday in a case that has caused a stir in Washington following meddling by the US president and his attorney general.

Stone received a sentence of 40 months in prison.

Stone, one of the Republican leader’s allies and “oldest friends,” was convicted in November of lying to Congress, tampering with a witness and obstructing the House investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to cheat in the 2016 election.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/roger-stone-sentenced-to-40-months-in-prison/

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he should have been given life.............................

[Pachamama]

1. Disgusting

He should have gotten life

More disgusting is that IMPotus will pardon him and they all literally get away with it all....

[Baclava]

2. so, with good behavior, he'll be out in a year?

yeah, that's what I thought

[turbinetree]

3. He'll be out next week..........................pardon in hand................

[frazzled]

6. No, good behavior gets a maximum 15% reduction

in a federal sentence. So at most he could get 6 months off. At least I think.

On edit: Here's an answer I found.

If you are sentenced to 40 months in Federal Prison
Minimum Security, how much time will you actually serve?

3 attorney answers

About 35 months from the date of arrest. Only the Bureau of Prisons caseworker for the inmate will know for sure. Under federal law, prisoners get 54 days a year of good time for every year they serve. 18 U.S.C. sec. 3624. Thus, a prisoner who is sentenced to 40 months in federal prison will serve a little less than 35 months. Good time is calculated by the Designation and Sentence Computation Center.

1,036 days (or 34.5 months, more or less) if you receive a full Good Conduct Time award. Any time that you have spent in federal pretrial detention will be credited toward the sentence, and if you were never arrested, but summonsed to court and processed by the US Marshals Service and released, you will receive one day's credit for that processing. The aforementioned calculation further will be reduced by the amount of time that you will be released to a Residential Re-entry Center (half-way house) or on...

The previous answers have accurately answered your question, the BOP will ultimately make the calculations.

https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/if-you-are-sentenced-to-40-months-in-federal-priso-458063.html

Of course, yes: there is a distinct possibility he will be pardoned or have the sentence commuted by the Don.

[turbinetree]

9. I still think trump will pardon him...................and normalize this stuff...............

[Bengus81]

34. He'll be out the door on November 4th with a Trump win or loss....

Trump won't pardon that crook until the election is over.

[underpants]

33. From date of arrest? He was arrested Jan. 25, 2019.

[frazzled]

35. I dunno, but he hasn't been incarcerated yet

I believe he was released on $250K bond, with travel restrictions.

Even so, he hasn't behaved well for the past year anyway, so I doubt he'd get any free time

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. So much for "throwing the book at him"!🤬

[Maraya1969]

5. Sad that she let this jackass president bully her.

I am disappointed.

[lagomorph777]

30. I see it exactly the opposite.

For a white-collar criminal, this is doing pretty well.

We have a long way to go before we have a functioning justice system, but this is better than I expected.

[SayItLoud]

7. Never serve a day. Should have been cuffed and taken into custody right then!

Busted for pot...off ya go.
Convicted of all this shit....ask for a new trial and OUT ya go!

Sucks.

[LudwigPastorius]

8. Hmmm...that seems about 5 years light.

I wonder why the judge allowed the sentences for lying and witness tampering to be served concurrently.

Well, we can always hope for prison house justice.

[killaphill]

14. What kind of prison house justice are you hoping for?

n/t

[LudwigPastorius]

19. Unrelenting, intense mockery and short-sheeting of his cot... n/t

[lagomorph777]

31. His prison name will be Zippy

[mr_lebowski]

10. My guess was 1-2.5 years ...

So I underestimated a bit ...

Hopefully it's low enough that Trump won't be arsed to pardon the little shitweasel.

I think if he'd gotten nine years, it would've been a certainty.

Now I think it's at least a LITTLE up in the air whether he does it.

[KPN]

11. Folks, our justice system is massively failing us in

the face of the most dangerous attack on our country, the Constitution and democracy in our lifetime if not the Civil War.

The penalties filed out thus far have been ineffective as deterrents to the dismantling of our Constitution. Not all lives do matter obviously.

[ancianita]

22. That is our current constitutional crisis: rule of law enforcement.

[LaurenOlimina]

12. He got off light.

[turbinetree]

16. real lite..................

and the judge was grilling the new prosecutors about how this stuff came about..............and she wanted answers...................

[Botany]

13. 3.25 years to rig a Presidential election and sell out your country?

Make him serve it in the Federal Super-Max in Colorado.

[turbinetree]

17. Yepper spot on....................

[KPN]

24. And hang him by his big toes while he's there!

[wishstar]

15. Since Manafort only got 7 1/2 yrs, makes sense Stone would get much less than Manafort

No way Judge Jackson would give Stone as much as Manafort considering the enormity of Manafort's financial crimes

Just hope she is able to deny motion for new trial quickly and order him to prison soon.

[onenote]

32. I would expect a decision on the motion for new trial in the next two weeks.

Stone's original motion for a new trial, and the government's opposition, were filed sometime between November 25 and December 15. Jackson's 15 page order denying that motion was adopted on February 5 -- probably less than two months after the government's opposition. She had no reason to move that quickly since the sentencing process was still underway.

The new motion was filed on Feb 14 and Jackson immediately gave the government until Feb 18 (basically a weekend) to file its opposition. Stone has asked for leave to file a reply and she gave him until February 24. Once she has the reply, I would expect her to move pretty quickly to decide the matter -- probably in the first week of March.

[Faux pas]

18. Seems like the judge

bowed to the pressure. We're screwn.

[COLGATE4]

20. I didn't hear if she stayed sentence pending an appeal.

If so, he'll never spend a minute behind bars. Long before the appeals process is finished the Orange Shitgibbon will pardon him. What a commentary on the state of 'justice' in Trump's Amerika.

[turbinetree]

21. Glen Kirscher (sp) came out and basically said that she wanted answer's from the "new prosecutors

about these "new" recommendations.......................and they were hemming and hawing....................the house judiciary will get the answers......................they can't run and hide ...................from them.......................


November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough....................unless we go into the streets first

[OneCrazyDiamond]

23. President Obama appointee. N/T

[Mr. Ected]

25. The rule of law has died under this administration

Only to be resurrected to apply against Democrats.

We are working against forces that far exceed the American population that supports it. That's my worry. There are no such things as free and fair elections under this regime.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

26. His Nixon tramp stamp will be a hit with his cellmates

Provided the dotard doesn't intervene.

[Warpy]

27. Long enough to make him a jailbird disqualified from politics

Short enough in mob terms that he won't be pardoned right away.

If nothing else, it will cause him to regret that Nixon tat in the prison shower.

[pecosbob]

28. This is a fair sentence, within the guidelines...I applaud Judge Berman for not caving

[DeminPennswoods]

29. Thought 7-9 years was a pretty ambitious

sentencing recommendation. 3.5 years seems more in line, but ymmv.

[hydrolastic]

36. In "get me Roger stone" He said

"Being punked is not a crime" Hope it works out for him in jail.