Per @AaronKatersky: FedJudge: fed gov’t tried to interfere w/@MichaelCohen212’s 1st amnt rights imposing certain conditions on his home confinement - Judge agreed Trump’s frm personal attorney + fixer was retaliated against when remanded back to fed prison from COVID furlough 1/5
The condition in question required Cohen to have “no engagement of any kind with the media, including print, TV, film, books or any other form of news/media.” 2/5
“How can I take any other inference but that it was retaliatory,” Judge Alvin Hellerstein asked rhetorically during a hearing. “In 21 years of being a judge…I’ve never seen such a clause.” - @AaronKatersky reports @ABC 3/5
The judge ordered Cohen released from prison by Friday afternoon and returned to home confinement subject to conditions that will be renegotiated over the next week. 4/5
“Just as you wouldn’t have a press conference from a jail cell you should not have a press conference from your home,” Judge Hellerstein said. “You can’t make a person confined in jail or at home into a free person. There has to be a limit.” @ABC’s @AaronKatersky reports 5/5
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