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U.S. Judge Aileen Cannon issued an order Thursday calling for an evidentiary hearing on the justifications for the infamous Mar-a-Lago raid in August 2022 and on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s piercing of attorney-client privilege.
The raid was executed on the basis of a warrant issued in Washington, D.C. by Judge Beryl A. Howell, who is seen as left-wing and anti-Trump. Howell allowed Smith toattorney-client privilege and to force a Trump attorney, Evan Corcoran, to produce notes of Trump’s conversations with him, based on the “crime-fraud exception,” which is invoked if it is suspected that a defendant is using the privilege to commit a crime, in this case concealing documents.
But critics have said that Howell’s decision was problematic — as was the fact that Smith used a judge in D.C., a far more anti-Trump jurisdiction, to pierce attorney-client privilege before filing the “documents” indictment in Florida., the judge said that “further factual development is warranted” when it comes to Trump’s challenge to the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago — his Florida home and private club. FBI agents searched his home on Aug.
In addition to the piercing of attorney-client privilege, Smith’s case against Trump may also be compromised by accusations that the Department of Justice tried to pressure Stanley Woodward, an attorney for Trump co-defendant Waltine Nauta, by suggesting he could lose a bid for a federal judgeship in the course of representing his client.
Cannon’s order suggests that the trial in the “documents” case could be further delayed, if the case is not dismissed outright. It also means that Trump and his co-defendants will see evidence they might not otherwise have seen.on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET . He is the author of the recent e-book, “Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S.
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