Posted on 06/12/2024 3:40:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Prosecutors have contended that even though materials were reordered, the boxes still contain the same evidence as when they were taken from Mar-a-Lago.
Former President Donald Trump this week filed a motion to dismiss his classified documents case, claiming that officials altered exculpatory evidence.
Prosecutors several weeks ago disclosed that the order of materials inside boxes of evidence was moved around.
A motion filed by his attorneys late on June 10 asks U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to scrap the case, which alleges that the former president illegally hoarded classified and top secret materials after leaving office in early 2021.
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The “original order of documents within the boxes” was not preserved after they were obtained, the motion says.
“There are no photographs or logs documenting the nature in which the allegedly classified documents were commingled with personal effects and out of plain view,” his attorneys continued, adding that the evidence ”was materially exculpatory” about allegations that President Trump violated the Espionage Act.
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interesting.
I see it as “Immersive Reader” (F9) on MS Edge. Don’t see it on Google Chrome.
thanks.
That seems to be the size of it.
I think part of Trump’s defense was the docs were not touched after they left custody of the National Archives personnel. The fact that the Jack Ass prosecutors shuffled the docs destroys a chance for that defense.
I think the Trump team, when they said “There are no photographs or logs documenting the nature in which the allegedly classified documents were commingled with personal effects..." and "the evidence ”was materially exculpatory,” was alleging that the fact that documents marked classified were packed along with personal items means that President Trump had declassified those documents according to the Presidential Records Act and had them stored along with his other personal effects.
By changing the order of documents and potentially moving classified documents to boxes that contained no personal effects because they didn't know which documents went with which placeholders, the exculpatory nature of commingled documents is no longer there.
-PJ
CHAIN OF EVIDENCE BROKEN
WE DON’T
According to most accounts-and the court filing-that was not done-ay, que sorpresa. So that excuse is in the toilet, along with a few pieces of evidence...
National Archives refused to take boxes Trump sent them.....
Put them back into an outdoors courtyard at the WH, IIRC.
The checks that were written after Jan 20, 2021 were done so under the operations of Don Trump, JR & Eric Trump.
Don SR had turned over running the businesses to those 2, when sworn in.
Signatures could have been “electronic” signatures.
Judge Cannon scheduled three pretrial hearings for late June but has postponed the submission of evidence in the classified documents case until at least next month as she considers motions.
There has been no trial date set for former President Trump or the two co-defendants in the case—Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira.
Tampered evidence.
That makes sense.
Any way you slice it, their bungling of the evidence renders it inadmissible because of the exculpatory evidence that was lost AND because the chain of custody for individual documents has not been documented and certified.
I would think these are “mistakes” that entry-level investigators would not even make. Seems almost as if they were deliberate and necessary because they planted the “evidence” themselves.
That is the epitome of putrescence.
They wouldn’t accept the boxes Trump gave them, put them in a totally unprotected area, referred Trump for prosecution because he didn’t give them to them, somebody delivered the boxes to Trump, then without any evidence that Trump even knew what was in the boxes claimed he had national security documents illegally, and even while Trump was cooperating and gave them access to see anything made a criminal referral to the FBI.
The FBI went in with guns blazing, would not allow anybody to observe what they did, took documents, didn’t document what they took, and then tampered with that evidence as they were later forced to admit.
Un-stinking-believable!!
This is what non-turd-world countries try to teach turd-world countries NOT to do in their law enforcement system.
These "mistakes," if they are mistakes as you suggest, are a direct result of Jack Smith appealing Judge Cannon's ruling in favor of a Special Master to first review the documents to separate out the classified documents.
Smith appealed the ruling because he wanted to speed up the case and felt the Special Master would slow things down too much for his schedule. Cannon ruled that Smith must stop reviewing the documents until after the Special Master first reviewed the documents. Smith appealed and had Cannon's order overturned.
And this was the eventual result.
-PJ
The government has already admitted that they brought the cover sheets that were marked “classified” with them to Maralago and placed those with the documents that did not have such cover sheets, before posing them on the floor for the photos they leaked to the press.
Hello! This sounds like Cannon is not going to allow PRA arguments!
ALERT! ALERT!
That's gotta make Smith jump for joy!
So Cannon wanted to make sure that the evidence was handled properly and ordered a Special Master to review the documents. Smith got her order overturned and promptly screwed up the evidence so badly that none of it should be admissible.
Is that about right?
-PJ
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