Trump’s Motion to Dismiss Classified Documents Case is Denied
March 15, 2024 Hour: 8:02 am
On Thursday, Aileen Cannon, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, who is overseeing the federal case regarding former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, rejected one of his two motions to dismiss the case.
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Cannon issued the ruling shortly after the completion of a daylong hearing on Trump’s requests to dismiss the case, which Trump attended.
A “motion to dismiss charges” is a legal request made by a defendant in a criminal case to have the charges against them dismissed.
If the motion is granted by the court, the charges are dropped, and the case does not proceed to trial. However, if the motion is denied, the case will continue through the legal process.
Former Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler says the American people should hear the truth about Trump and the classified documents case before the election:
“The American people have the right to know the facts, that this is not a witch hunt.”
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump)
March 12, 2024
Trump’s legal team argued that the majority of the charges should be dismissed based on the Presidential Records Act, a 1978 law which regulates the preservation of information during and after a presidency, contending that the law prevents Trump from being prosecuted.
Trump’s lawyers cited other cases where presidents were discovered to have kept classified information and also referenced Special Counsel Robert Hur’s choice not to prosecute President Joe Biden for classified material he retained after his vice presidency.
Trump has also asserted that he designated the materials he removed to Mar-a-Lago as personal records while he was still in office, an argument refuted by the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith, who has been investigating Trump.
Trump is embroiled in four criminal cases, facing about 90 felony charges, and has recently been fined hundreds of millions of dollars in two civil cases. He denies all charges and accuses Biden and the Democratic Party of ongoing “political witch hunts” against him.
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Autor: teleSUR/ JF
Fuente: Xinhua