When former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort Paul John ManafortOur Constitution is under attack by Attorney General William Barr Bannon trial date set in alleged border wall scam Conspicuous by their absence from the Republican Convention MORE returns to court on Friday he will do so in his prison garb.

On Wednesday, the federal district court judge who oversaw Manafort’s criminal trial in Virginia this summer denied his request to wear a suit to court for a hearing to discuss his sentencing.

Judge T. S. Ellis III, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, said that Manafort should be treated no differently from other defendants in custody post-conviction.

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Manafort has not yet been sentenced on the eight counts of bank and tax fraud he was convicted of in August by a Virginia jury. Ellis was forced to rule a mistrial on the remaining 10 counts after the jury failed to reach a verdict.

Last month, Manafort agreed in a deal with federal prosecutors to a plead guilty to two charges — one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice by witness tampering — to avoid a second trial on separate charges in Washington, D.C.

As part of the deal, Manafort agreed to fully cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow.

Prosecutors in return promised to request the outstanding charges be dismissed and to delay sentencing until after his cooperation in the investigation was complete.

But in an order last week Ellis said it would be “highly unusual” to defer sentencing and for the government to put off it’s request to dismiss the the remaining charges.

“In this district, the government’s decision to re-try a defendant on deadlocked counts is always made in a timely manner and sentencing occurs within two to no more than four months from entry of a guilty plea or receipt of a jury verdict,” he said.

The parties are expected back in court Friday afternoon to set a sentencing date, order a pre-sentence investigation report and address the government's plan to dismiss the outstanding counts.