Manafort Judge to Tell Jury to Ignore His Trial Commentary
- Virginia jury likely to begin deliberations on Wednesday
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Robert Mueller’s prosecutors, taking one last chance to complain about the impact that critical comments made by Paul Manafort’s trial judge may have on their case, won a victory of sorts: U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III will tell the panel to ignore what he said and focus on the evidence.
That concession came after attorneys for both sides persuaded Ellis to swap out two of the instructions he plans to give jurors about how to apply the law to the evidence, and replace it with a single instruction addressing the prosecutors’ concerns.