Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
Given U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s slow handling of Donald Trump’s classified documents case and the backlog of motions holding up a trial, it’s always notable when she makes decisions that might let a trial take place someday. That happened Monday, when she rejected a defense motion that sought to dismiss charges for “pleading deficiencies,” while striking a paragraph from the indictment in the process.
The bottom line, she wrote in an order, is that: And that paragraph she struck from the indictment? That’s paragraph 36, which reads: To be clear, Trump isn’t directly charged with the conduct in that paragraph, so this isn’t a dismissal of any charges. Rather, the judge explained in her order that the information in that paragraph was included as another crime, wrong or act besides those specifically charged.
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