Judge in 2020 election case mostly denies Trump's demand for more evidence from prosecutors
Source: CBS News
October 16, 2024 / 3:18 PM EDT
Washington — The federal judge overseeing the 2020 election case against former President Donald Trump largely rejected Wednesday his demand for prosecutors to search for and turn over more information that the former president believed would support his defense and show his state of mind as he contested the results of the last presidential contest.
The 50-page order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan came in response to Trump's request to force special counsel Jack Smith and his team to search nine government entities for 14 categories of information and hand the evidence over to his legal team.
But after reviewing the tranches of material sought by Trump, Chutkan found that prosecutors should conduct such a search for just three types of information and produce to the defense what they find. Those batches include:
Material the director of National Intelligence reviewed before an interview with the special counsel's team; Records regarding security measures that were discussed with Trump during a meeting with former Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley days before the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021; Evidence related to the federal investigation into Vice President Mike Pence's handling of classified records after leaving office.
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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.263.0_8.pdf