A federal district court in Florida on Monday dismissed proceedings against former US President Donald Trump in a case of negligent handling of classified documents due to the illegal appointment of the special prosecutor representing the prosecution.
Judge Ellen Cannon granted the defense motion, in which Trump's defenders argued that special counsel Jack Smith was illegally appointed, lacked the authority to prosecute, and that his office was improperly funded by the Justice Department.
Smith and his team strongly opposed the defense’s arguments at a hearing last month. Prosecutors are expected to appeal the decision. The ruling represents another legal victory for the Republican presidential candidate, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on July 1 that the former president of the United States is entitled to escape punishment for actions taken in his official capacity.
Meanwhile, Jack Smith is representing the Attorney General against Trump in another lawsuit, in federal court in Washington, in the case of changing the results of the 2020 election.
The current decision represents another legal victory for the Republican presidential candidate, after the US Supreme Court found on July 1 that the former US president was entitled to escape punishment for his actions taken in his official capacity, MTI wrote.
Several boxes of secret documents were found in his possession.
As we previously reported, in 2022, thousands of official documents were found at Donald Trump’s Florida property, which the former president had no intention of returning despite the archive’s request. He eventually turned over 15 boxes of documents to the archive, which contained more than 100 classified documents.
The case was turned over to the Justice Department, and investigators visited the Florida estate, where they took a few dozen more documents. The former president's associates later said there were no more classified documents left at the estate, though another search found 13,000 more documents at the home, about 100 of them classified as top secret.
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