'They should stop': Jack Smith tells Mar-a-Lago judge to ignore Trump valet's 'deeply flawed' bid to toss case
Source: Law & Crime
Mar 28th, 2024, 8:41 am
The Special Counsels Office (SCO) on Wednesday asked the Mar-a-Lago judge to ignore the deeply flawed and meritless arguments that former President Donald Trumps valet Walt Nauta raised for the first time in a reply brief but not in his motion to dismiss the case on grounds of vindictive and selective prosecution.
Nauta faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct, false statements to the FBI, and withholding documents, connected to an alleged scheme to delete Mar-a-Lago camera footage and conceal boxes of classified documents from a grand jury. His lawyers most recently argued that the indictment should be thrown out because he was singled out and was impermissibly retaliated against with prosecution because he didnt testify in front of the grand jury.
Special Counsel Jack Smith countered on Wednesday by slamming the defense for just now and not when filing their motion to dismiss making numerous false factual assertions and meritless arguments. Smith said U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has seen this kind of procedurally improper and belated move before and that she should rule in the SCOs favor for a second time.
Arguments and factual assertions not presented in an opening motion and raised for the first time in a reply brief are not properly before the Court. These repeated attempts by the defendants to reserve arguments until their reply briefs in order to prevent the Government from responding serve neither the Court nor efficient process, and they should stop, he said, urging Cannon to ignore the falsities in Nautas reply.
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Full headline: They should stop: Jack Smith tells Mar-a-Lago judge to ignore Trump valets deeply flawed bid to toss case based on lawyers conversation over coffee with a prosecutor
FBaggins
(26,742 posts)Prosecutors don't "tell" federal judges to do anything.
Likely another example of some editor titling an author's work that they didn't understand.
Justice matters.
(6,929 posts)Yeah, who effin CARES about effin NATIONAL SECURITY since w/cheney right?
Watta country...
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)Read the defendent's filing here: (link) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.421.0.pdf
And the prosecutor's filing here: (link) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.420.0.pdf
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)Trueblue Texan
(2,430 posts)erronis
(15,271 posts)Giving and taking advice on how best to throw sand into the gears of justice.
hadEnuf
(2,190 posts)MAGATs are lawless. Put NOTHING past them.
Quanto Magnus
(895 posts)from the likes of Steven Miller pretty much seal that for me.
rubbersole
(6,691 posts)..something about clearing their client's good name and reputation.
BlueKota
(1,732 posts)and that Clarence Thomas did not recuse himself from Trump's immunity case, and nothing being done to Thomas, or Alito for accepting "gifts,", it tells me all I need to know about the "justice" system or lack there of under majority Republican rule.
It's beyond broken.
peppertree
(21,635 posts)Because you know - her middle name is Mercedes.
And if it does her orange john a favor, she'll toss it.