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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe odds for release from jail pending his trial don't look good for Manafort.
He has been appealing Judge Amy Berman Jackson's decision to revoke his bail and put him in jail pending his September trial in WA DC.
On Thursday, a 3-judge panel made an interim decision NOT to grant him an early release. He has to wait for the panel to make its final decision, whenever that will be. (If they thought it was likely he'd win, they probably would have let him out.)
And since he complained about being too far from his lawyers in Alexandria, Judge Ellis (the one running his July trial) ordered him to be moved out of his cushy digs, where he had the VIP treatment, to a more ordinary jail in Alexandria.
Tough luck, Manafort! Might as well get used to it. As Judge Ellis said, that Alexandria jail has done a good job taking care of all kinds of inmates -- including terrorists and traitors.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/12/manafort-appeals-court-denies-release-mueller-probe-716695
A federal appeals court has turned down former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manaforts request for immediate release from jail in advance of two federal criminal trials he is facing.
A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Thursday afternoon denying a request to let him out as the court continues to consider his appeal of a district court judges order last month revoking the house arrest hed been under since October.
The D.C. Circuits one-page order provided little explanation for the ruling. The court declines to exercise its authority under [a federal court rule] because appellant has not shown that immediate relief before resolution of his expedited appeal is warranted, the court said.
The decision does not dispose of Manaforts appeal or foreclose his eventual release, but it suggests its unlikely hell succeed in springing himself from jail. Hes currently set for trial on bank and tax fraud charges in an Alexandria, Virginia, federal court starting July 25. Another trial on charges of money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent is set to follow in Washington on Sept. 17.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)Wasn't Manafort continuing to commit crimes while in VIP jail using email?
pnwmom
(109,009 posts)a superseding indictment. Anything's possible.
canetoad
(17,197 posts)I've read the stories about the two laptops being shuttled and switched. Is this illegal? Thought it might be but you never know, they might have found a loophole?
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)MontanaMama
(23,356 posts)yonder
(9,682 posts)Maybe time to trim your sense of entitlement a bit.
thbobby
(1,474 posts)I really don't care. Do you?
pnwmom
(109,009 posts)thbobby
(1,474 posts)Makes me think of the song "Happy Days are Here Again".
pnwmom
(109,009 posts)OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)crimes in the first place, is still on show in his gamble that Trump will save him. He appears to be a person of incredibly poor judgement.