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by Alan M. Dershowitz • January
29, 2019 at 3:00 pm
- If there was no legitimate
reason for the arrest and handcuffing of this presumed
innocent defendant, what was the illegitimate reason? The
illegitimate purpose of the arrest was to intimidate the
potential witness -- namely Stone -- into not invoking his
constitutional right to remain silent, rather than to testify
as a government witness.
- As Judge T.S. Ellis,
III, who presided over the Manafort trial observed: "You
don't really care about Mr. Manafort's bank fraud – what you
really care about is what information Mr. Manafort could give
you that would reflect on Mr. Trump or lead to his prosecution
or impeachment."
- The ACLU has been
absolutely silent in regard to the questionable tactics
employed by Mueller. They, too, would have been up in arms had
these tactics been employed against their favorite candidate
and mine, Hillary Clinton. Their silence speaks volumes about
their partisanship and lack of neutral standards of civil
liberties.
- Congress must act to
prevent these abuses from recurring.
Judge T.S.
Ellis (right), who presided over the first Manafort trial, observed
that flipped witnesses sometimes have an inducement not only to
"sing" but to "compose" -- that is, to
embellish. (Image source: Fox News video screenshot)
The reasons given thus far for Roger Stone's
pre-dawn arrest by armed FBI agents are utterly unconvincing. He
was not a flight risk, as evidenced by the low bail and easy
conditions of release set by the judge without objection from the
government. Stone knew he was going to be indicted and if he wanted
to flee, he had plenty of time to do so. The same is true of
destroying evidence, wiping his electronics or doing anything else
that would warrant an arrest rather than a notice to his lawyer to
appear in court at a specified time. A search was conducted of
various residences pursuant to a search warrant. No arrest was
necessary to conduct these searches.
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