{"id":108889,"date":"2025-02-11T18:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/court-dismisses-appeal-of-trumps-classified-documents-case\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:03:42","slug":"court-dismisses-appeal-of-trumps-classified-documents-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/court-dismisses-appeal-of-trumps-classified-documents-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Court dismisses appeal of Trump’s classified documents case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(WASHINGTON) — Two weeks after the Department of Justice, now under new leadership following Donald Trump’s reelection, moved to dismiss their appeal of Trump’s classified documents case, a circuit court formally dismissed the appeal of a case that once accused the president of mishandling some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets.<\/p>\n

The dismissal marks the end of a series of federal criminal cases that once dogged Trump’s political future.<\/p>\n

“Appellant’s ‘Unopposed Motion to Dismiss Appeal’ is GRANTED. This appeal is DISMISSED,” said the one-page order issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.<\/p>\n

Recently appointed Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Hayden O’Bryne moved to dismiss the appeal against Trump’s former co-defendants on Jan. 29.<\/p>\n

Trump previously faced 40 criminal counts — including violations of nine separate federal laws — for allegedly holding on to classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021 and thwarting investigators’ efforts to retrieve the documents from his Mar-a-Lago estate. He pleaded not guilty to all charges in 2023.<\/p>\n

Trump, along with longtime aide Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago staffer Carlos De Oliveira, pleaded not guilty in a superseding indictment to allegedly attempting to delete surveillance footage at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.<\/p>\n

Last summer, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon — who Trump appointed to the bench during his first term — dismissed the indictments against Trump, bucking decades of legal precedent by finding that special counsel Jack Smith had been unconstitutionally appointed.<\/p>\n

Smith appealed Cannon’s decision but was ultimately forced to drop the appeal against Trump after Trump was reelected in November, due to a longstanding Department of Justice policy prohibiting the prosecution of a sitting president.<\/p>\n

After O’Bryne moved to dismiss the appeal against Nauta and De Oliveira last month, Tuesday’s dismissal closes the book on the case.<\/p>\n

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