Cannon dismissed the case on procedural grounds, without ever considering the mountain of incriminating evidence against Trump:.
Another tranche of more than 30 classified documents Trump had turned over to the Department of Justice in response to a subpoena.
Testimony from Mar-a-Lago employees that the boxes of classified documents were moved at the behest of the former president.
Days before he left office in 2021, Donald Trump illegally removed from his White House residence hundreds of boxes of government property.
In November of 2022, Jack Smith was appointed special counsel to investigate and potentially prosecute Donald Trump in the classified documents case.
The case landed in the court of a Florida judge Trump appointed to the bench, Aileen Cannon.
The special counsel is bound to include in its appeal an argument that Judge Cannon be dismissed from the case. »