Defense attorneys for Roger Stone, the veteran GOP operative and former adviser to President Donald Trump, filed court documents late Friday seeking to dismiss charges…
Defense attorneys for Roger Stone, the veteran GOP operative and former adviser to President Donald Trump, filed court documents late Friday seeking to dismiss charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller and request access to his 400-page report in its entirety.
In his argument for charges to be dropped, Stone cited several consitutional clauses that “invalidate” the special counsel’s appointment and authority to prosecute.
“The appointment was illegal, the resulting office has been a nullity from inception, and all actions taken by this illegally appointed officer should be declared null and void,” Stone’s legal team wrote. “The indictment of Roger Stone should be dismissed with prejudice.”
Several federal courts have dismissed similar challenges to the special counsel’s authority on the basis that the investigative office was improperly appointed, including an appeals case brought by a former aide to Stone, Andrew Miller.
