Roger Stone: Jail time ‘essentially’ a ‘death sentence’ with coronavirus

Published April 18, 2020 2:08am ET



Roger Stone, a longtime friend of President Trump, speculated that his upcoming stint in prison would likely be a death sentence for him amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Earlier this week, the federal judge who presided over the Roger Stone trial and handed down a 40-month prison sentence shot down his request for a new trial on Thursday. The calls for a new trial intensified in February after it was discovered that one of the jurors likely misled the court to conceal a negative bias toward the longtime associate and friend of Trump.

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