Heavy Lift for Stone

News  |  Mar 8, 2019

Roger Stone's defense team filed a document with the court saying it does not know how many motions it plans to file, but it seems to have its work cut out for it given the enormous amount of documents and data the government has handed over for review. 

From the filing:

The Court is inquiring about the nature and number of motions. While the defendant cannot say with specificity or certainty at this point in the proceedings, the defendant and counsel can advise that we may file a motion regarding selective or vindictive prosecution ... We may file a motion to dismiss regarding error in the grand-jury proceeding ... Counsel for Defendant may file one or more motions to suppress ...

The defense’s ediscovery vendor identified approximately 2.23 million pages of "Load Ready" data provided by the government, including the “Hot Documents” identified, without warranty, by the government. There is approximately another 4.5 Terabytes of “Non-Load” ready data provided by the government that is in the process of being filtered and prepared for review.

It is difficult to anticipate the number of motions relating to discovery, suppression, or other issues at this point.

DEFENDANT ROGER STONE’S RESPONSE TO FEBRUARY 27, 2019 ORDER OF THE COURT