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EffieBlack

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11. He didn't publicly proclaim his innocence

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Reply #9)

Thu Feb 28, 2019, 09:22 AM

Feb 2019

He made a public statement that a witness in Mueller's case is lying in his testimony about matters directly related to that case. That unequivocally violates the judge's order not to publicly comment on the case or anyone involved in it.

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This is what Roger Stone is prohibited from doing...... [View all] jberryhill Feb 2019 OP

Cohen is a participant in the Special Counsel's case and investigation. He is a witness. berni_mccoy Feb 2019 #1

Agree LiberalFighter Feb 2019 #3

Disagree LiberalFighter Feb 2019 #2

You disagree with a question? jberryhill Feb 2019 #5

"Furthermore, the defendant may not comment publicly about the case indirectly by having statements BumRushDaShow Feb 2019 #4

People were convinced he'd be locked up last time too jberryhill Feb 2019 #6

I expect the timing of the release of that statement BumRushDaShow Feb 2019 #7

Laurence Tribe on Stone's tweet and whether or not it violates his gag order: "YES" hlthe2b Feb 2019 #8

Because it didn't seem blatant and could be construed as proclaiming innocence I think he skates... Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2019 #9

He didn't publicly proclaim his innocence EffieBlack Feb 2019 #11

Michael Cohen is a participant in Mueller's case. Stone publicly stated he was lying about EffieBlack Feb 2019 #10

Odd, then, that the prosecution did not even mention this communication in today's filing jberryhill Mar 2019 #12

Stone will claim he did not make the statement uponit7771 Mar 2019 #13

Actually, he sent an Instagram post. Caliman73 Mar 2019 #14

The OP is about the text to the Buzzfeed reporter jberryhill Mar 2019 #15

I see. Caliman73 Mar 2019 #16

What do you think about the other kettle of fish? pnwmom Mar 2019 #17

The book is probably the easier one to deal with jberryhill Mar 2019 #18

Thanks for the link. That link wasn't there the last time I checked. nt pnwmom Mar 2019 #19