Trump friend Roger Stone denied new trial by judge

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5. Here is the Judge's comments.......

short and sweet.



.........In her ruling, Jackson rejected Stone’s argument that the jury forewoman had lied during jury selection and had exhibited a bias on social media that should have ruled her out from deciding Stone’s fate.

“The defendant has not shown that the juror lied; nor has he shown that the supposedly disqualifying evidence could not have been found through the exercise of due diligence at the time the jury was selected,” Jackson wrote in her decision Thursday.

“Moreover, while the social media communications may suggest that the juror has strong opinions about certain people or issues, they do not reveal that she had an opinion about Roger Stone, which is the opinion that matters,” the judge wrote.

Jackson, in a separate order, said, “The defendant must surrender for service of his sentence at the institution designated by the Bureau of Prisons at such time as he is notified by the U.S. Probation or Pretrial Services Office, but no earlier than fourteen days after the date of this order.”