Jack Smith, wanted to file a couple of motions, under seal Judge Cannon said nope.
The Special Counsel’s motion for leave to file under seal [ECF No. 95] is DENIED.
The Clerk is directed to STRIKE from the docket sealed entries 95 and 96.
The filing was part of request for a "Garcia Hearing" to ensure a defendant's lawyer is not conflicted (Nauta's attorney also is the lawyer for a few witnesses.)
But this might be what Jack Smith wanted to keep hidden.
Among other topics as raised in the Motion, the response shall address the legal propriety of using **an out-of-district grand jury proceeding to continue to investigate and/or to seek post-indictment hearings on matters pertinent to the instant indicted matter in this district. **
He has used a very anti-Trup grand jury in DC, and then filed the case in a different jurisdiction, Florida.
AFAIK, that is not allowed.
This is not exactly right.
The Florida indictment was handed down by a grand jury in the Southern District of Florida. That meant they had to convene a second grand jury and present the evidence again.
He developed the case and interviewed witnesses in DC, but once they had what they had, the sixth amendment says it needs to be tried where the crimes charged ocurred.
Jack Smith, wanted to file a couple of motions, under seal Judge Cannon said nope.
The filing was part of request for a "Garcia Hearing" to ensure a defendant's lawyer is not conflicted (Nauta's attorney also is the lawyer for a few witnesses.)
But this might be what Jack Smith wanted to keep hidden.
BINGO.
Smith is a real snake and probably a psychopath.
He has used a very anti-Trup grand jury in DC, and then filed the case in a different jurisdiction, Florida.
AFAIK, that is not allowed.
And the only reason he has done it is so that he can be very sneaky in getting anything past the grand jury as far as charges.
THIS is what he wants to "hide" from the public (although we already know, so this is an admission that he knows what a snake he is).
The entire case needs to be thrown out because Due Process has already been violated.
This is not exactly right. The Florida indictment was handed down by a grand jury in the Southern District of Florida. That meant they had to convene a second grand jury and present the evidence again.
The news of the second grand jury came out in June. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/politics/florida-grand-jury-mar-a-lago-trump-documents/index.html
He developed the case and interviewed witnesses in DC, but once they had what they had, the sixth amendment says it needs to be tried where the crimes charged ocurred.