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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoger Stone will be sentenced at 10am this morning.
How much time will he get?
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10-20 years | |
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5-7 years | |
11 (61%) |
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1-3years | |
2 (11%) |
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6-10 months | |
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3months + probation | |
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Sentence and immediate pardon | |
3 (17%) |
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Tickertape Parade | |
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Pie | |
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rzemanfl
(29,569 posts)Zoonart
(11,879 posts)Frankly, the jurists that have been talking about this are all over the map.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)Wasnt it 7-9 years?
Zoonart
(11,879 posts)I only included 10-20 as a "Throw the book at him" Fantasy.
Feel free to make your own guess.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)Zoonart
(11,879 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)40 months is definitely in the neighborhood of 4 years!
Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)No good way to act for them. Do you take the prosecutions first recommendation? Do you take the DOJs revised? So where in between? Do you take into account that the President will pardon him if its too severe?
dalton99a
(81,590 posts)He will not serve one day in prison
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)he is an asshole and criminal that has been screwing with people for a long time. He is a ratfucker.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)can he be forced to testify? Will he be pardoned again if he ignores a subpoena?
Zoonart
(11,879 posts)immediately loose his 5th amendment right against self incrimination, because in the accepting the pardon he is admitting guilt.
Yes he can testify and will also be open to new charges.
Zoonart
(11,879 posts)If the pardon power is used with criminal intent then, no, the pardon power is not unlimited. The pardon power can, for example, be used for obstruction of justice, which is a serious crime. So the use of pardon power for Roger Stone or say, Paul Manafort could be viewed as obstruction of justice.
Especially in light of the testimony of Julian Assange in Britain, during which his lawyers asserted that Roger's buddy Assange was offered a pardon if he would announce to the world that Russia had not been involved in the DNC hack. A message that had been , it is surmised, delivered by Dana Rohrabacher. Lawyers do not make claims like this in open court if they do not have evidence to back it up.
So... the whole pardon thin in this case, is a very slippery slope for the Con.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)you where convicted for.
tavernier
(12,401 posts)and an instant pardon.
Zolorp
(1,115 posts)Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)To do anything else will look like the Judge was compromised by bullies.