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Judge Aileen Cannon issued an order that she won’t believe new reveals from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s workforce as proof within the hearings at present underway in former President Donald Trump’s Espionage Act case.
This week, Judge Cannon — a Trump appointee — held hearings on various issues, together with on Smith’s motion annoying Trump be gagged from making statements like his false claims President Joe Biden tried to assassinate him with the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago. Critics have accused Choose Cannon of slow-strolling the case and making rulings hostile to the prosecution.
Smith and his team submitted a brand new submitting during those hearings, including eleven new reveals that incorporated pictures, videos, social media posts, and one that included a number of court docket orders.
In a pair of paperless orders issued Thursday, Choose Cannon sealed Tuesday’s hearing, and cited that exhibit 11 would not be thought to be as proof as a result of “The evidentiary file on the Motion is closed”:
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Jun 27, 2024
PAPERLESS MINUTE ENTRY for Hearing held before Decide Aileen M. Cannon on June 25, 2024. The Court heard argument on Defendant Trump’s “Motion for Relief Associated to Mar-A-Lago Raid and Illegal Piercing of Legal professional-Consumer Privilege” [566]. Morning session conducted beneath seal to offer protection to materials as to which grand jury secrecy applies and/or as to which Defendant Trump asserts attorney-consumer privilege or work product protection. Afternoon session reopened to the general public. Complete time in court docket: four hours. Attorney Appearances: Jay I. Bratt, David Harbach, John M. Pellettieri, Michael Thakur, Todd Blanche, Emil Bove, Lazaro Fields, Kendra Wharton, Stanley Woodward, Sasha Dadan, Larry Donald Murrell, Jr., John S. Irving. Courtroom Reporter: Laura Melton, Laura_Melton@flsd.uscourts.gov. (jf01)
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Jun 27, 2024
PAPERLESS ORDER: In mild of the extensive, newly submitted supplies filed by the Different Counsel and Defendant Trump in enhance of and/or in opposition to the Unique Advice’s Movement to Modify Prerequisites of Free up [592], the Court docket will permit the events to file one closing supplemental transient in keeping with those newly submitted materials, to not exceed 10 double-spaced pages, on or ahead of July 5, 2024. The Court takes note of the extra court docket orders incorporated in composite exhibit eleven to the Special Tips’s recently filed Discover [652]. Consistent with the Court’s statements all the way through the July 25, 2024, afternoon listening to [649], the Court will believe such orders as cited prison authority on the Motion, no longer as a part of the developed evidentiary report in this continuing, and not for the factual findings set forth in those separate court cases. The evidentiary file on the Motion is closed. Absent go away of Court docket, no further shows will probably be attached to the approved ultimate supplemental briefs. Signed through Decide Aileen M. Cannon on 6/27/2024. (jf01)
Decide Cannon’s order contained a small error – July 24, 2024 is someday. The listening to in query passed off up to now.
The put up DENIED: Trump-Appointed Choose Will Now Not Imagine New Exhibits As Proof In Espionage Act Listening to first seemed on Mediaite.
