Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Cannon Lays Groundwork For Trump Not Guilty Verdict

 



The Malignant Loser's favorite judge, corrupt hack Aileen Cannon, is daring Special Counsel Jack Smith to go to the 11th Circuit and get her reversed and removed from the Mar-a-Lardo classified documents case.  He needs to do it, based on her most recent egregious order:

The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case has given the jury routes to find the former president not guilty in a "perplexing" court order, an attorney has said.

Judge Aileen Cannon is overseeing the Republican nominees' Mar-a-Lago indictment in which Trump was charged with retaining national security information—including U.S. nuclear secrets and plans for military retaliation in the event of an attack—and obstructing efforts to retrieve them in June 2023.

Prosecutors have said Trump took documents that he was no longer authorized to have after leaving the White House in January 2021 and that he resisted repeated requests by federal officials to return them. Trump has denied all wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to the charges.

On Monday, Cannon issued an order instructing lawyers to file proposed jury instructions by April 2 in which she laid out two different legal scenarios, one which would instruct the jury to decide whether Trump did not have the authorization to keep classified documents found on his property, and the second assuming Trump had authority to keep the records because he was president, as per an understanding of the Presidential Records Act (PRA).

Trump's legal team has filed a motion saying the act allowed him to retain the materials as his own personal property and Cannon is yet to rule on it.

Reacting to the order in her blog, Civil Discourse, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance criticized it, calling it "perplexing" and "crazy."

She wrote: "Although the order is only two pages, it's perplexing.

"It's two page of crazy stemming from the Judge's apparent inability to tell Trump no when it comes to his argument that he turned the nation's secrets into his personal records by designating them as such under the Presidential Records Act."

"I've never had a judge say, 'you know, I have no idea what the law is here, so lets make a couple of different assumptions about it, and even though they're both wrong, give me some ideas,'" she added.

"The assumptions in Judge Cannon's two scenarios virtually direct the jury to find Trump not guilty, by suggesting that a president can hold onto any government property he wants to as long as he designates it as personal before he leaves office. The only questions she leaves open is whether anyone can second guess a former president who pinky promises he decided something was personal before he went back home. For instance, in the first one, she directs the lawyers to assume that juries get to examine each item a former president is charged with retaining and decide whether the government has proven that it is personal or presidential. So, it's up to the jury to decide what's personal and what isn't."...  (our emphasis)

"Crazy" and "perplexing" are the least of it.  Malignant Loser- appointed Cannon has been trying to derail or delay this slam- dunk trial from the moment it was assigned to her.  She's shown her hand over and over again as a tool of the treasonous Malignant Loser.  Haven't we seen enough to get this compromised hack off the case?

Pull the damn trigger before more time, if not the case, is lost.