Roger Stone has asked a federal appeals court to delay the start of his prison sentence until Sept. 3.
Lawyers for the Trump associate filed the request to push back the start date for his 40-month sentence with the D.C. Court of Appeals late Monday.
Stone was originally set to begin his time in jail in April but was granted a delay until the beginning of July due to his health issues and the coronavirus pandemic. At the end of June, Stone asked the judge to delay his start date until September. The judge declined to provide such a long delay but granted him an extension until July 14, asking him to quarantine in his house until then.
“This will address the defendant’s stated medical concerns during the current increase of reported cases in Florida, and Broward County in particular, and it will respect and protect the health of other inmates who share defendant’s anxiety over the potential introduction and spread of the virus at this now-unaffected facility,” the judge said last month.
The latest motion from Stone’s lawyers argued that he “is at considerable risk from serious health consequences, including death, if his surrender date is not extended.” It added that the judge “failed to give adequate deference to the government’s uniform policy not to oppose surrender date extension motions due to the pandemic, and failed to consider authority from around the country on this issue under similar circumstances.”
Stone was arrested in connection to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump campaign and Russian election interference. He was convicted of witness tampering, obstruction of justice, and lying to Congress in November and was sentenced to three years and four months.
