In a flurry of legal filings, Roger Stone’s defense team argues that he and his defense team should be allowed an exclusive look at the Mueller report.…
In a flurry of legal filings, Roger Stone’s defense team argues that he and his defense team should be allowed an exclusive look at the Mueller report.
They also claim that since Attorney General Robert Barr has declared there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, that «there is no there there» as regards charges against Stone.
And finally, his defense argues that the whole special counsel investigation was not constitutionally funded because Congress did not specifically appropriate funds for special counsel offices and that Congress has not explicitly provided that the special counsel can investigate a president or his presidential campaign.
«If the President and his presidential campaign cannot be investigated by the Executive Branch’s Department of Justice, then the investigation of Roger Stone, which was the direct fruit of that poisoned tree, must fall,» according to one filing.
The filings were made Friday in the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which will oversee his case.
Stone, 66, was arrested in January and pleaded not guilty to one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of making false statements and one count of witness tampering.
