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Court Orders Trump Lawyer to Produce Mar-a-Lago Documents

by Ryan Lee
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The law court in Washington has asked former President Donald Trump’s lawyer to give documents to the investigators. These documents are related to classified information that was stored at his home in Florida.

The ruling is very important for the Justice Department. They have been investigating why President Trump and his team did not return classified documents to the government, which they had taken from Mar-a-Lago. This suggests that the court believes Trump was trying to do something wrong by using his lawyer to help him with it.

A group of judges from the United States District Court in Washington D.C. made a decision, and announced it on the internet. Because the case is confidential, they didn’t name any of the people involved.

A court judge was deciding if an important document or testimony could be given to a group that’s investigating whether President Trump did something wrong while at Mar-a-Lago. This investigation has been going on for a long time and the Manhattan District Attorney has postponed a grand jury session with Trump. Republicans are using words related to George Soros, which is changing the way people think about this investigation.

Last year, Corcoran wrote a statement which said the FBI had already looked through Mar-a-Lago carefully. However, this wasn’t true as the agents came back to search with a warrant and uncovered 100 secret documents. Corcoran is suspect because of this mistake.

Another one of Donald Trump’s lawyers, Christina Bobb, said to investigators last autumn that somebody called Corcoran had written a letter for her and then asked her to sign it on behalf of Donald Trump – in other words, as the person with responsibility for his records.

The FBI, led by special counsel Jack Smith, is currently in the middle of investigating whether Trump or any of his friends blocked their investigation about classified documents found at Trump’s house. Nobody has been accused and sent to jail yet, but this isn’t the only problem that Trump is facing. He also needs to deal with multiple trials in Atlanta, Washington and New York for trying to mess up an election, as well as a grand jury investigation over money he pledged to someone quietly. It looks like the NYC case will be finished soon though with him possibly going to jail.

Last week, Judge Beryl Howell asked Corcoran to answer extra questions before a special jury. Before this jury, Corcoran had been asked questions in relation to the Mar-a-Lago case but he used his lawyer’s rights and refused to reply.

Usually, lawyers keep private any conversations they have with their clients so that other people, like prosecutors, won’t know what was said. However, the Justice Department has a way to find out by asking a judge if a lawyer helped someone commit a crime – this legal principle is called the “crime-fraud” exception.

Judge Howell made a decision in favor of the Justice Department just before leaving his job as chief judge last Friday. This judgement was disagreed with and then taken to an appeals court. The dispute was about an order which Judge Howell issued on the same Friday.

Three judges recently made a decision which was ordered by the court after they looked at arguments from two different sides. The three judges were appointed by former President Barack Obama and current President Joe Biden. A lawyer for one of the sides did not answer when asked for a comment and another lawyer declined to say anything about the order from the judges.

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