Everyone is expecting Roger Stone's upcoming trial to be wild
Everyone involved is preparing for Roger Stone's trial to be a spectacle, The Wall Street Journal reports.
That includes Bruce Rogow, Stone's attorney, who told the Journal he is looking forward to reading coverage of the proceedings. "It will be an interesting trial," he said.
Stone, President Trump's former adviser, was indicted in January under former Special Counsel Mueller's probe into 2016 Russian election interference and charged with obstruction of an official proceeding. So far, the pretrial events have been filled with "middle school" antics, at least in the eyes of exasperated U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson.
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So far, Jackson has already denied the Justice Department's motion to introduce a clip from The Godfather: Part II to jurors. The department argued the clip was "critical" to its case against Stone, who reportedly referenced the scene — which depicts a character deciding not to provide damning testimony against the film's central Corleone crime family — in text messages with former friend Randy Credico before the key witness was scheduled to appear before lawmakers investigating election interference.
Stone has been accused of threatening Credico, who is hoping to bring his therapy dog to the witness stand like he did last year before Mueller's grand jury. Read more at The Wall Street Journal.
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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.
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