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How Trump's Classified Documents Case Could End

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The Complications of Paneling a Jury

I'm just not sure that does, that is not typically a complete defense to the retention of documents or the obstruction of justice or any of the other charges that are here. I still don't quite see how that gets the charges thrown out. There's maybe some legal ambiguity around the kind of taking of the documents part of these alleged events because he actually leaves town before noon on January 20th,. It just muddies the water a little bit. The retention is much more clear and that's mostly in Florida. And there's a lot of kind of head scratching about why this case is brought in Florida and not in DC as a lot of people anticipated or predicted.

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