Published December 4, 2023
Judge Aileen Cannon denied Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request to keep some documents hidden in the classified documents case against Trump.
Last month Jack Smith’s lawyers asked Judge Cannon to keep documents under seal because it is considered “highly sensitive classified information.”
Judge Cannon denied Jack Smith’s request to keep the records hidden.
“In light of the Special Counsel’s Response to Defendants Motion to Unseal 230, and mindful of the strong presumption in favor of public access to judicial documents, the Clerk is directed to unseal docket entries 223, 224, and 230,” Judge Cannon’s 4 order reads.
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Published December 4, 2023
Aileen Cannon, the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump‘s classified documents case, on Monday ordered the unsealing of documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who had asked that they be kept under wraps because they could reveal his trial strategy.
After receiving a subpoena from the Department of Justice (DOJ) last year to turn over classified documents that the former president took from the White House after leaving office in 2021 that were believed to be at his Mar-a-Lago home, Trump and his team returned only some of them.
An FBI raid in August 2022 found hundreds more documents in boxes still stored there. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, is facing charges of withholding and concealing from federal investigators classified and top-secret material. He pleaded not guilty and has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
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SOURCE: www.Newsweek.com
RELATED:‘Not a basis to deviate’: ‘Mindful’ Mar-a-Lago judge unseals docs after Jack Smith warned of revealing ‘contours and extent’ of his plans
Former President Donald Trump (left) speaks at Trump National Golf Club on June 13, 2023 (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File), (right) Judge Aileen M. Cannon speaks remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing on July 29, 2020. (U.S. Senate via AP)
Published December 4, 2023
The U.S. district judge presiding over Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago prosecution ordered the unsealing of several documents, shedding light on special counsel Jack Smith’s concerns about revealing the “contours and extent” of the government’s plans to delete classified information from shareable discovery.
In a brief paperless order, Judge Aileen Cannon, “mindful of the strong presumption in favor of public access to judicial documents,” ordered the unsealing early Monday. Hours later, documents that were filed by the Special Counsel’s Office on Nov. 22, among others, went public.
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SOURCE: www.lawandcrime.com
