ITS’ AN ESPIONAGE TRIAL STOP CALLING IT A DOCUMENTS CASE. “JUDGE CANNON JUST COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR and Special Counsel Jack Smith FINALLY HAS GROUNDS TO APPEAL her and possibly seek her removal from the case.”

Michael Popok breaks down a new order by Judge Cannon and why her fundamental misunderstanding of a key rule of criminal evidence may be her undoing.

AND ONCE IT GOES TO TRIAL IT'S A SLAM DUNK CONVICTION FOR ESPIONAGE!

THIS HASN’T FILTERED DOWN TO THE NOT NECESSARY UP ON THE LAW CORPORATE PRESS:

U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled Monday that she will delete a paragraph in the federal superseding indictment against Donald Trump that alleges he mishandled classified materials after he left the White House and thwarted officials’ attempts to retrieve them.

The judge said that prosecutors’ inclusion of paragraph 36 — which alleges Trump showed a classified document in September 2021 about a military operation to someone without a security clearance — is inappropriate because it is not connected to a specific crime that Trump is accused of committing.

Trump is not charged with disclosing classified materials to anyone after he left office. Cannon’s ruling suggests that she believes this type of evidence, which prosecutors used to establish Trump’s alleged carelessness with classified materials, would be better introduced as evidence at trial — not in the charging document.

FROM:

Washington Post

Judge Cannon strikes paragraph in Trump classified document indictment

U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled she will delete a paragraph in the federal superseding indictment against Donald Trump that alleges he mishandled classified materials.

Perry Stein

June 10, 2024 at 7:52 p.m. EDT