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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Mar-a-Lago Raid => Topic started by: mystery-ak on March 19, 2024, 11:33:32 pm
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‘Stack the Deck So Trump Wins’ – Leftists Melt Down Over Judge Cannon’s Jury Instructions in Jack Smith’s Classified Docs Case
by Cristina Laila Mar. 19, 2024 5:20 pm
Judge Aileen Cannon issued a jury instruction order in Jack Smith’s classified documents case and the leftist legal analysts are going apocalyptic.
Cannon gave two options for jury instructions.
The first option:
In a prosecution of a former president for allegedly retaining documents in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(e), a jury is permitted to examine a record retained by a former president in his/her personal possession at the end of his/her presidency and make a factual finding as to whether the government has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that it is personal or presidential using the definitions set forth in the Presidential Records Act (PRA).
The second option is:
A president has sole authority under the PRA to categorize records as personal or presidential during his/her presidency. Neither a court nor a jury is permitted to make or review such a categorization decision. Although there is no formal means in the PRA by which a president is to make that categorization, an outgoing president’s decision to exclude what he/she considers to be personal records from presidential records transmitted to the National Archives and Records Administration constitutes a president’s categorization of those records as personal under the PRA.
CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen said both of Judge Cannon’s options for jury instructions are wrong.
“Cannon seems inclined to push the case to trial but is basically asking if she can stack the deck so Trump wins,” Norm Eisen said.
more
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/stack-deck-so-trump-wins-leftists-melt-down/
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It's a bullsh*t case, anyway.
Unlike Biden, who had no authority to be in possession of classified documents in the venues in which he kept them as either senator or as Vice President, Trump did have authority to those documents he had.
I won't even mention Hillary's code-word classified files on her home server as mere Secretary of State.