Judge questioned how Trump did not notice 'classified marked documents' in his bedroom

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47% : The Justice Department had subpoenaed Trump in May 2022 for the return of such records.
44% : Howell's ruling from last year came in part after she found that the government had put forward "sufficient evidence to show" that Trump had used his attorneys "as an 'instrumentalit[y]' or a 'front m[a]n' to obstruct the government's investigation and perpetuate the former president's unlawful retention of any classified documents.
39% : Judge questioned how Trump did not notice 'classified marked documents' in his bedroomKen Dilanian and Dareh GregorianMay 22, 2024 at 12:33 AM The judge who oversaw special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into Donald Trump's retention of classified records questioned how the former president could not have noticed that he had highly sensitive documents in his bedroom in Florida, a newly unsealed ruling shows.
39% : " Prosecutors have said that Corcoran conducted a too-narrow search for subpoenaed documents based on misrepresentations from Trump, and that Bobb signed off on a certification about that search in June 2022 indicating no further documents remained.
30% : The remark came in a ruling where she granted the prosecution's request to be able to question two of Trump's lawyers by using the crime fraud exception to attorney client privilege, finding some of their discussions with Trump were deemed to be in furtherance of a crime.
27% : " Trump faces dozens of felony charges in the case, including willful retention of national defense information, false statements and representations, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record and corruptly concealing a document.
24% : Prosecutors "sufficiently demonstrated" that Trump obstructed the search, Howell wrote, "by providing evidence that the former president intentionally concealed the existence of additional documents bearing classification markings" and that "such deception would result in providing an unknowingly false representation to the government.
21% : Trump was later indicted in federal court in Florida, which is where the alleged crimes were carried out.
21% : Trump has argued that the case should be dismissed because of "prosecutorial misconduct."

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