Emboldened Trump seeks revenge post impeachment trial

By Veronica Rocha, Mike Hayes and Fernando Alfonso III, CNN

Updated 9:47 p.m. ET, February 12, 2020

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10:31 a.m. ET, February 12, 2020

It's up to the judge how much prison time Stone gets

The Department of Justice has updated its sentencing recommendation for President Trump's former associate Roger Stone. The prosecutors are now asking for "far less" time than the 7 to 9 years that they initially asked for.

Remember: It is Judge Amy Berman Jackson's decision to sentence Stone as she sees fit. It's not immediately clear whether the Justice Department's revised recommendation will affect that decision. Stone's sentencing is scheduled for February 20.

More on this judge: Amy Berman Jackson is an Obama appointee who has also overseen other cases in the Mueller investigation, including the case against Paul Manafort.

10:16 a.m. ET, February 12, 2020

DOJ prosecutors still want to send Roger Stone to prison

From CNN's David Shortell, Evan Perez, Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins and Jeremy Herb

The DC US Attorney's Office is still asking a federal judge to sentence President Donald Trump's former associate Roger Stone to prison, though for "far less" time than the office had asked for a day earlier, the new filing says. The prosecutors decline to say how much time in prison Stone should serve.

"While it remains the position of the United States that a sentence of incarceration is warranted here, the government respectfully submits that the range of 87 to 108 months presented as the applicable advisory Guidelines range would not be appropriate or serve the interests of justice in this case," the prosecutors write.

Grant Smith, an attorney for Stone, said they look forward to reviewing the government's latest filing shortly.

"We have read with interest the new reporting on Roger Stone's case. Our sentencing memo outlined our position on the recommendation made yesterday by the government. We look forward to reviewing the government's supplemental filing," Smith said in a statement. Stone's attorneys had argued a sentence of 15 to 21 months would be appropriate.

Read the updated sentencing memo here.

10:13 a.m. ET, February 12, 2020

Here are the four prosecutors who quit the Stone case

The four federal prosecutors who took the case against longtime Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone to trial withdrew Tuesday after top Justice Department officials undercut them and disavowed the government's recommended sentence against Stone.

Here are the four prosecutors who withdrew from the case:

Aaron S.J. Zelinsky
Jonathan Kravis
Adam Jed
Mike Marando

Zelinsky and Kravis also resigned from the DC US attorney's office. Zelinsky, who worked on former special counsel Robert Mueller's team, did not resign from the Baltimore US attorney's office, where he is based.