A grand jury found the fatal shooting by Fort Pierce Police of a man suspected of earlier deadly shootings to be justified, a prosecutor said.
The Florida jurist finds ‘no historical precedent’ for plan to release a special counsel’s dossier while a case is ongoing.
Cannon’s ruling could make it easier for the Trump administration to bury the report, which recounts Smith’s investigation into the classified records that Trump stored at his Mar-a-Lago home after his first term and his alleged attempt to obstruct efforts to retrieve them.
Six months after she dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon can now decide whether to squash the release of Jack Smith's report, too.
FORT PIERCE, Florida — A federal judge appeared highly skeptical Friday of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s plan to show lawmakers the volume of special counsel Jack Smith’s report ...
The Justice Department has halted its appeal, which was aimed at reinstating the criminal charges against Trump's employees.
Though Trump is no longer a party to the case, Garland agreed with concerns raised by Smith that publicly releasing the classified documents report could unfairly prejudice co-defendants Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira - both longtime Trump employees.
The Florida-based judge did not immediately rule on whether the Justice Department can move forward with its plan to show the report to a handful of lawmakers.
Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department appealed a judge's dismissal of the case.
A report of shooting activity in Fort Pierce ended with investigators taking three people into custody in the Port St. Lucie area, officials said.
The department’s motion to drop the case was signed by Hayden O’Byrne, who was appointed as the “interim” U.S. Attorney in Miami on Monday at the same time as the firings. O’Byrne, a member of the conservative Federalist Society, was hired as a prosecutor by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2019.
The Justice Department abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the Florida classified documents case.