The Roger Stone Sentencing Dispute

This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:

THE QUICK FACTS

• This week, federal prosecutors issued a sentencing recommendation for Trump ally Roger Stone, asking the judge to give Stone between 7 and 9 years in prison.
• Stone was convicted last November of seven crimes, including obstruction of justice, lying to Congress, and witness tampering. He is scheduled to be sentenced next week.
• President Trump raised objections to the sentencing recommendation via Twitter, calling it “very horrible and unfair” and a “miscarriage of justice.”
• Later that day, the Justice Department took the rare step of overruling the prosecutors and saying it will lower the amount of prison time recommended.
• In response, all four prosecutors resigned from the case in protest.

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