Posted on 05/03/2024 7:40:56 PM PDT by chickenlips
In a stunning admission, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team is admitting that key evidence in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents criminal case was altered or manipulated since it was seized by the FBI, and that prosecutors misled the court about it for a period of time.
Legal experts told Just the News the revelation could prove to be a serious problem for prosecutors and a violation of court rules to preserve evidence in the state it was seized.
In a new filing Friday, Smith’s team said that the order of documents in some of the boxes of memos that were seized by the FBI from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was altered or jumbled, leaving two different chronologies: one that was digitally scanned and another the physical order in the boxes.
“Since the boxes were seized and stored, appropriate personnel have had access to the boxes for several reasons, including to comply with orders issued by this Court in the civil proceedings noted above, for investigative purposes, and to facilitate the defendants' review of the boxes,” Smith’s team wrote in a new court filing to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.
“There are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans,” the prosecutors wrote.
Smith’s team in a footnote also conceded it had misled the court about the problem by previously declaring that the evidence had remained in the exact state it had been seized.
“The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court,” the footnote said.
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Ya think?
"Your honor, our evidence is fake but accurate."
“Yeah. Sure. We’re manufacturing evidence against Trump. Is there a problem here?”
Mistrial! Mistrial! Mistrial!
This whole case should be thrown out of that alone.
Mistrial?
More like a Criminal Conspiracy to “Get TRUMP!”.
Throw the damn case out
I’m waiting for Judge Cannon to dismiss the case with prejudice. Please God, make it so!
To date, none of the pleadings have made that claim. Where are you getting the information that the “evidence is fake?”
Did you read the title of the article?
Manufacturing evidence has never been a problem before. If this should be thrown out they’ll just manufacture more.
The jury has not been empaneled, therefore there cannot, at this stage, be a “Mistrial! Mistrial! Mistrial!”
How about “Dismissed with prejudice?”
So, some of the evidence that people handled the documents while in Trump’s possession has been indiscriminately destroyed by the Prosecution reordering the sequence of the documents from the order they were in when they were shipped. Attributing the change in sequence as evidence of Trumpian handling, or more especially of awareness of a given box’s contents, is indeed “evidence which is fake.”
Yep. That is correct. Largely meaningless, but correct.
IIRC, need the jury to be seated first, then toss it out with prejudice. At that point the double-jeopardy rule is active, once the trial starts, and they can’t take another run at him with this case. I think Judge Cannon is slipping the knife into them and twisting it, all without them being able to do anything about it.
Known to be false from day one when the FIBs publicly posted pics of the files laid out on the floor at Mar Lago.
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