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From ABC News
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered U.S. Marshals to move Paul Manafort from his rural Virginia jail to a detention facility in Alexandria, Va., in the Washington metro area, where the former Trump campaign chairman faces two trials – one set to begin later this month and the second in September.
But within hours of the judge’s order, attorneys for Manafort asked that their client remain at Northern Neck, citing “his safety," among other things, even though they had complained his detention there was hurting his defense.
“In light of Mr. Manafort’s continuing detention and after further reflection, issues of distance and inconvenience must yield to concerns about his safety and, more importantly, the challenges he will face in adjusting to a new place of confinement and the changing circumstances of detention two weeks before trial,” Manafort’s team wrote to the judge in the case.
COMMENT:-
It gets a bit confusing when the people who are claiming that it is too far for them to travel and that the reason for Mr. Manafort's particular "residential arrangements" (i.e. that they are for his own safety) are bogus turn around and object to Mr. Manafort being moved closer to their law offices on the grounds that he would be less safe if he were moved.
Of course, the fact that the "residential arrangements" at the closer facility wouldn't be of the same quality as the "residential arrangements" at the current facility have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Mr. Manafort instructing his lawyers to object to him being re-located. Right?
Judge orders Manafort moved to jail closer to upcoming trials, but defense objects
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered U.S. Marshals to move Paul Manafort from his rural Virginia jail to a detention facility in Alexandria, Va., in the Washington metro area, where the former Trump campaign chairman faces two trials – one set to begin later this month and the second in September.
But within hours of the judge’s order, attorneys for Manafort asked that their client remain at Northern Neck, citing “his safety," among other things, even though they had complained his detention there was hurting his defense.
“In light of Mr. Manafort’s continuing detention and after further reflection, issues of distance and inconvenience must yield to concerns about his safety and, more importantly, the challenges he will face in adjusting to a new place of confinement and the changing circumstances of detention two weeks before trial,” Manafort’s team wrote to the judge in the case.
COMMENT:-
It gets a bit confusing when the people who are claiming that it is too far for them to travel and that the reason for Mr. Manafort's particular "residential arrangements" (i.e. that they are for his own safety) are bogus turn around and object to Mr. Manafort being moved closer to their law offices on the grounds that he would be less safe if he were moved.
Of course, the fact that the "residential arrangements" at the closer facility wouldn't be of the same quality as the "residential arrangements" at the current facility have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Mr. Manafort instructing his lawyers to object to him being re-located. Right?
