Comments on: Brain Dead‽

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 17:28:20 +0000

That was for criminal contempt for violating a court order which is an actual violation of a law. If you get thrown in for annoying the judge, the judge gets to schedule or not schedule your next court appearance and you haven’t been charged with or convicted of any crime that can be pardoned. You are essentially in pre-trial detention or ‘purgatory’.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 15:45:04 +0000

Well, as Sheriff Joe Arpaio proved, there is a recourse for contempt charges, and that’s a Presidential pardon. Perhaps Stone knows something we don’t know?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 03:22:20 +0000

In reply to Kryten42.

She doesn’t smile much, and is running out of patience with Trump’s friends. Stone is going to get jerked back to reality if he screws up again. You do not, whether you are an attorney, witness, or defendant, annoy a sitting Federal judge. They have the power to throw you in a cell for the rest of your life on contempt charges – no trial and no real recourse if you piss them off. Stone is an arrogant asshole who has managed to avoid real consequences, but he is in the major leagues now.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 00:20:29 +0000

I was laughing when I read Judge Jackson sentence for Stone. Sweeeeet poetic justice! She must have been smirking like the Cheshire cat! Judge doesn’t throw Roger Stone in jail, instead hands him an even worse punishment