UPDATE: Stone, who is scheduled to appear in court again Friday afternoon, called a last minute press conference in Washington, DC Thursday to address the news that prosecutors are going to need more time to review the “both voluminous and complex” potential evidence seized in searches of his home, office, apartment, and online accounts.
"I believe that over a two-year period, my emails, my text messages and my phones calls have been monitored," he said. "And I have deleted nothing, I have erased nothing."
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Stone agreed: "It is voluminous and complex," but later added that the indictment was "flawed."
Stone also said his house was "completely surrounded" last week when FBI agents -- whom he described as "professional and courteous" -- came to arrest him. He also said he wasn't read his Miranda rights when he was taken into custody.
Stone has characterized the arrest and raid as “Gestapo tactics” and some in the conservative news media have criticized the FBI operation as heavy-handed. Other former law enforcement officials have told ABC News it was standard procedure.
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“I am heartened that Senator Graham and also some Republican members of the House are looking into the manner in which I was arrested,” Stone said.
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Stone said he has not spoken to Trump since the indictment, and again left open the possibility of cooperating with the special counsel’s office.
“This is a question that I will have to refer to my lawyers,” Stone said. “All I can say is I will tell the truth.”
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has filed a motion with the court asking to designate the case against Roger Stone as too complex for a speedy trial, referencing the amount of evidence seized in various searches of his home, office, online accounts, and more.
In a motion to ask for more time to bring Stone’s case to trial, the feds said one reason is because discovery is “both voluminous and complex,” adding up to “several terabytes of information.”
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After the evidence is filtered by a separate FBI team to separate out communications that are privileged (such as discussions with his attorney), it will be given to prosecutors and shared with Stone’s defense.
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The case will be jointly tried by the U.S. Attorney for D.C., who filed the motion. Stone’s defense doesn’t oppose the move.
From the government's motion and the judge's order:
This discovery in both voluminous and complex. It is composed of multiple hard drives containing several terabytes of information consisting of, among other things, FBI case reports, search warrant applications and results (e.g., Apple iCloud accounts and email accounts), bank and financial records, and the contents of numerous physical devices (e.g., cellular phones, computers, and hard drives). The communications contained in the iCloud accounts, email accounts, and physical devices span several years. The government also intends to produce to the defense the contents of physical devices recently seized from his home, apartment, and office. Those devices are currently undergoing a filter review by the FBI for potentially privileged communications.
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ORDERED that the case is designated as complex, the time is excluded from speedy trial clock based on the ends of justice being best served by permitting the defense reasonable time necessary for effective trial preparation and such action outweighs the interest of the public and the defendant in a speedy trial.
The court also has issued a protective order requiring the defense to keep confidential all materials the government has to hand over for discovery.
Motion designating case as complex
Feds Seized ‘Several Years’ of Roger Stone’s Communications (Daily Beast)
Prosecutors lay out volume of evidence collected from Roger Stone's hard drives, email accounts (CNN)