WASHINGTON: An appeals court on Tuesday granted a request by prosecutors to drop the case against US President-elect Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents.
\nSpecial Counsel Jack Smith had asked the court on Monday to dismiss the case because of a long-standing Justice Department policy of not prosecuting a sitting president.
\nA Trump-appointed district court judge in Florida threw out the documents case earlier this year, but Smith had appealed the ruling to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
\nThe appeals court granted Smith\u2019s request to dismiss the case without comment.
\nSmith is continuing, however, to pursue the case against Trump\u2019s two co-defendants, his valet, Walt Nauta, and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira.
\nTrump, 78, was accused of removing large quantities of top secret documents after leaving the White House at the end of his first term and obstructing efforts to retrieve them.
\nThe former president was also accused by the special counsel of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election won by Joe Biden. A judge on Monday granted a request by Smith to drop that case.
\nThe special counsel paused both federal cases this month after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the November 5 presidential election.
\nThe former and incoming president also faces two state cases \u2014 in New York and Georgia.
\nHe was convicted in New York in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election to stop her from revealing an alleged 2006 sexual encounter.
\nJudge Juan Merchan has postponed sentencing while he considers a request from Trump\u2019s lawyers that the conviction be thrown out in light of the Supreme Court ruling in July that an ex-president has broad immunity from prosecution.
\nIn Georgia, Trump faces racketeering charges over his efforts to subvert the 2020 election results in the southern state, but that case will likely be frozen while he is in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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