Roger Stone
Timothy Shea became the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia last week. On Tuesday, his career ended.
Shea is still technically in office, but his ability to effectively lead the nation’s largest U.S. Attorney’s Office has ceased. That’s because Shea did something unheard of: One day after career prosecutors filed a sentencing memorandum with the court in the Roger Stone case, seeking a sentence that complies with federal guidelines, Shea publicly overruled them by asking the court for a more lenient sentence.
What happened in between? President Donald Trump tweeted his disapproval about the treatment of his friend, calling the initial sentencing recommendation “a horrible and very unfair situation” and stating, “Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice!”
Bowing to political pressure from the president violates the duty of prosecutors to bring impartial justice. Even the appearance that a prosecutor’s office has been swayed by political influence harms its effectiveness by eroding public confidence in its independence. A Department of Justice […]
If you go to the original article you will see some comments that explain this fiasco. I am no Roger Stone fan but he was arrested at something like 4AM by a SWAT team with guns drawn the ultimate be charged with a process crime (allegedly a lie to the FBI). He was found guilty and the sentencing recomendation was 7-9 years. That’s more than what is typical for a rape. Another example of reporting “a different version” of the news.