Steve Bannon's request for a new trial is rejected by federal judge

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Source: abc17news.com





By Sara Murray, CNN Published September 2, 2022 4:36 PM


A federal judge on Friday denied Steve Bannon’s request for a new trial, after the former Trump adviser was convicted of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack.
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“Defendant’s arguments relating to the jury instructions, while certainly well preserved, do not demonstrate a serious miscarriage of justice,” US District Judge Carl Nichols, who presided over Bannon’s trial, wrote in a Friday ruling.
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“Defendant has not shown that the testimony from any member of the House of Representatives that he sought would be material,” Nichols wrote.

Bannon is slated to be sentenced on October 21 and faces a minimum of 30 days in jail.

Read more: https://abc17news.com/news/2022/09/02/steve-bannons-request-for-a-new-trial-is-rejected-by-federal-judge/

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I wonder if he will actually spend any time in jail.

[ificandream]

1. Go to jail, Bannon. Do not pass GO.

[underpants]

2. Do they really strip them down and shower them or spray them down on intake?

Sleep well with that thought folks

[Harker]

6. It might be his first in a month. n/t

[CentralMass]

8. A delousing

[Blue Owl]

9. His skin and innards might just fall right off the bone

Seriously, the dude looks like a rotten corpse....

[riversedge]

15. yes. they do.

[Irish_Dem]

3. If we can't get Trump, we must get all of his accomplices.

There has to be a lesson to those who helped a criminal president.

If we cannot touch a criminal former president, we have to make the penalty for assisting
him so high, no one will do it again.

[SouthernDem4ever]

22. Should be able to get both

[Irish_Dem]

23. Yes we should be able to get both.

Whether we will in reality is another matter.

[Evolve Dammit]

4. Why this "senior advisor" has not been indicted for sedition, conspiracy and/or insurrection????

[malthaussen]

5. Not sentenced until October, and the offense was a whole year ago.

That's not my idea of a "rapid trial." Insert saying about justice delayed being justice denied, or some such.

-- Mal

[GreenWave]

7. He should request a new brain

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Buck up and sober up Bannon

[nycbos]

11. To avoid his conviction all he had to do was appear before...

... the 1/6 committee and say "on the advice of counsel I plead the fifth amendment."

To my understanding several people have done that.

[LudwigPastorius]

20. That wouldn't get the rubes reaching for their wallets.

He'll do his 60 days in a country club prison, then release his version of Mein Kampf to cash in on it.

[Warpy]

12. Good, it's not like any new information has come out

Even if guys like Gosar and Biggs said it was OK to ignore a subpoena from Congress, he was the one who chose to take bad advice.

[The Jungle 1]

13. I am pretty sure bannon will need a cavity search.

[riversedge]

16. uck uck

[3Hotdogs]

14. One tot and no pears. And also

no Sanny Claws for you this year.

[riversedge]

17. "The criminal offense of contempt of Congress sets the penalty at not less than one month nor more t

hoping hoping.............




@sc_jolly
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I'm hoping for the maximum on both jail & fine! The criminal offense of contempt of Congress sets the penalty at not less than one month nor more than twelve months in jail and a fine of not more than $100,000 or less than $100.

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[LudwigPastorius]

21. Good God!

That guy looks like a walking bus station urinal.

[Novara]

18. I wonder how much taxpayer money could be saved if these assholes took "no" for an answer

The courts need to start charging these assholes when they keep tying up the courts in an egregious waste of time.

[JohnnyRingo]

19. I don't care if he does a month in jail or not.

It's having the felony conviction hanging over his head for the rest of his life that is satisfying.

[RayStar]

24. Jail time

30 days is a joke.