MOSCOW, April 17 – RIA Novosti. In the United States court rejected the petition of Roger stone, the longtime friend and associate of U.S. President Donald trump, on re-trial, according to CNBC.
In February, the court sentenced stone to three years and four months in prison on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and witnesses.
as the reason for the petition, the lawyers of stone declared bias of one of the members of the jury were women, which was allegedly originally opposed to trump.
However, according to judge Amy Berman Jackson, the defenders have failed to prove that the choice of the member occurred with any violations.
the Charges against stone advanced spectracolor Robert Mueller. During a two-year investigation Muller confirmed the accusations of the us intelligence against Russia in “intervention in election” with the leak of documents through WikiLeaks. Moscow denies this. However, Mueller did not confirm the accusations of “collusion” between trump and Moscow, which was denied in the Kremlin and in the White house. The stone was not accused of any “agreement” with Russia or WikiLeaks.
