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Judge to order Michael Cohen be released from prison, returned to home confinement

A federal judge on Thursday said he intended to order that Michael Cohen be returned to home confinement, after the former Trump attorney was sent back to prison earlier this month over a dispute with federal corrections officials.

Judge Alvin Hellerstein, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, accused the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) of trying to violate Cohen's First Amendment rights by imposing a gag order as a condition of his home confinement.

"I make the finding that the purpose of transferring Mr. Cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail as retaliatory, and it's retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his First Amendment rights to publish the book and to discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media" and elsewhere, Hellerstein said during a court hearing on Thursday.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/508682-judge-to-order-michael-cohen-be-released-from-prison-returned-to

 

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