Let me try to wrap my once lawyerly mind around this: Manafort is released on home detention while being ordered not to contact potential witnesses the government has unfettered access to pressure. Then, because he is suspected of trying to contact them, he is thrown in jail in what another judge in another government case against the same man has acknowledged is an obvious plan to force Manafort to cooperate in their Jihad against Trump. So, in essence, Mueller and our government is using the courts to influence/force a potential witness (Manafort) for their purposes by throwing him in jail for allegedly contacting witnesses for his purposes! One way street for “Justice” here, ‘eh?

I want to know, as a lawyer, what legal theory is at play which precludes a one party in a court case from contacting prime witnesses, while the other side has free access to the same witnesses?