A series of mystery court documents that were filed under seal last week were made public Monday, in the litigation surrounding special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury subpoena of Andrew Miller, a former aide to Roger Stone.
The mystery filings were a joint motion to unseal a previously sealed contempt order against Miller, who had been continuing to resist testifying in front of the grand jury, even after U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled against his request to quash the subpoena.
Howell, last month, ordered Miller to jail until he testified, but paused the order to give Miller time to either come to an alternative agreement with the prosecutors or to appeal her order. Miller appealed, so the contempt order continues to be on pause.
Miller’s attorneys, after a hearing behind closed doors last month, told reporters that their client had been held in contempt but that the judge was pausing the order for him to appeal it.
Miller is expected to file a brief in the appeals case on Monday.
Read the contempt order and the request to unseal it below:
Roger, you should know by now that Mueller will leave no Stone un-turned to learn the truth of what you’ve done.
So how usual is it for an order like this to be stayed during appeal? IIRC there have been other cases where it wasn’t.
So, I guess Miller AND Trump are above the law.
Orders are often stayed when counsel indicate they plan to appeal. Judges often give attorneys a number of days in which to stay the order while appeal documents are prepared and filed.
I’d rather Miller go to jail for a few days to experience first hand a future without a grand jury chat. But, then again, what he has to say may land him in jail anyway and he’s just spinning out the days before it happens.