Federal Judge Halts Release of Classified Docs Report Naming Trump
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, based in Florida, ruled that making the report public would constitute a "manifest injustice" to Trump and the two other defendants, given that the sweeping criminal allegations it contains were never tested before a jury.
In her written ruling, Cannon stated that disclosure of Smith's report "would contravene basic notions of fairness and justice in the process, where no adjudication of guilt has been reached following initiation of criminal charges."
The case traces back to 2023, when Smith filed 40 criminal counts against Trump, accusing the former president of unlawfully retaining classified national defense materials at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and obstructing federal efforts to recover those documents. Trump denied all the allegations.
Cannon, who was appointed to the federal bench by Trump in 2020, ultimately dismissed the entire case in 2024, determining that Smith had been unlawfully installed as special counsel by the Justice Department under former President Joe Biden's administration — a ruling that effectively ended the prosecution before it ever reached trial.
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