quote, this defendant should be treated no differently from other defendants. so judge ellis denies paul manafort s request to wear a suit tomorrow. he ll be in his jump suit, his green prison jump suit. the reason he s going to be in court tomorrow overall is because the judge wants to know whether the special counsel s office plans to retry manafort on the ten felony counts that the jury had dead locked on in his earlier trial. the judge wants an answer from the prosecutor soon, even though the mueller team isn t done getting information out of paul manafort now that he has a cooperation deal with them. this week the special counsel s office said in a filing that if they do have to make a decision now, quote, they do not oppose the dismissal of those counts without prejudice. which means they don t want to make a decision now whether they re going to try paul manafort on the ten counts. they want to wait to see what else they can get out of him as a cooperator. but if the judge is go
wear street clothes just like he did during the trial. yesterday the judge, the federal judge who presided over manafort s trial who will preside over the hearing ruled, quote, no. they are not entitled to appear in sentencing or any other hearing in street clothing. quote, this defendant should be treated no differently from other defendants. so judge ellis denies paul manafort s request to wear a suit tomorrow. he ll been in his jumpsuit, his green prison jumpsuit. the reason he s going to be in court tomorrow overall is the judge wants to know whether the special counsel s office plans to re-try manafort on the ten felony koupts the jury had deadlocked on in his earlier trial. the judge wants an answer from the prosecutors soon even though the mueller team isn t done getting information out of paul manafort now he has a cooperation deal with them. this week the special counsel s office said in a filing if they do have to make a decision now,