'Tower of indignation': Judge rejects Roger Stone’s request for a new trial

The federal judge who presided over the Roger Stone trial and handed down a 40-month prison sentence for the self-described "dirty trickster" shot down his request for a new trial on Thursday.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama-appointee who handled multiple cases spun off from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, issued an 81-page opinion denying Stone’s motion for a new trial following allegations the juror foreperson misled the court to conceal a bias toward the longtime associate and friend of President Trump.

“The defendant has not shown that the juror lied; nor has he shown that the supposedly disqualifying evidence could not have been found through the exercise of due diligence at the time the jury was selected,” Jackson said, adding: “The motion is a tower of indignation, but at the end of the day, there is little of substance holding it up.”

The controversy surrounding juror Tomeka Hart, a former Democratic congressional candidate, kicked into high gear in February when it was revealed she shared anti-Trump posts on social media, which resulted in Stone’s lawyers filing a motion for a retrial prior to his sentencing.

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