{"id":101380,"date":"2020-06-25T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=101380"},"modified":"2020-06-25T06:39:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T10:39:42","slug":"federal-appeals-court-drop-michael-flynn-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=101380","title":{"rendered":"Federal Appeals Court: Drop Michael Flynn Case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Flynn. (Manuel Balce Ceneta\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A federal appeals court ordered the judge, overseeing the Michael Flynn case, to dismiss the case. A three-judge panel made this decision. The majority decided that new evidence argued for dismissal.<\/p>\n

As a recap, Michael Flynn was charged with making false statements to the FBI. However, evidence indicated that the FBI had no grounds to question Michael Flynn. Additionally, the agents that interviewed him did not feel that he lied to them.<\/p>\n

From Politico:<\/span><\/p>\n

Rao’s majority opinion leans heavily on the “presumption of regularity” often afforded to executive branch decision-making — the notion that courts should presume prosecutorial decisions are made in good faith. Through this lens, Rao and Henderson concluded, the Justice Department’s discovery of new evidence that cast doubt on Flynn’s guilt should be treated with deference.<\/p>\n

Wilkins, an Obama appointee, issued a sharply worded dissent. The government’s U-turn in the case, he said, was so abrupt that a judge could reasonably question it.<\/p>\n

“This is no mere about-face; it is more akin to turning around an aircraft carrier,” Wilkins wrote.<\/p>\n

Wilkins also complained that his colleagues were departing with normal federal court practice by prematurely intruding in the affairs of a district court judge who had not yet ruled.<\/p>\n

“It is a great irony that, in finding the District Court to have exceeded its jurisdiction, this Court so grievously oversteps its own,” wrote Wilkins. He added that while the government never actually filed an appeal of its own, the majority’s ruling shutting Sullivan down seems to rest not as much on Flynn’s rights as on the impact on the government of Sullivan’s continuing scrutiny of Barr’s decision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Politico has more information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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