Appeals Court Rejects Flynn Bid To Force Judge To End Criminal Case, No Questions Asked [View all]
Source: Talking Points Memo
Michael Flynn cannot force a federal judge to agree to drop criminal charges against the former national security adviser, a full panel of the D.C. appeals court ruled on Monday.
The ruling means that U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan for the District of Columbia can proceed in examining why the Justice Department took the unprecedented step of dropping its criminal case against Flynn, after Flynn had both pleaded guilty and then withdrawn his plea.
The order is a reversal of the intervention a three-judge appellate panel made in the case earlier this summer, when it commanded Sullivan to immediately dismiss that case. The full appeals court had already blocked that order, in an early indication that it was skeptical of the move to intervene in the district court proceedings at this time.
The fallout from the Justice Department’s May decision to walk away from Flynn’s prosecution has been extraordinary and unprecedented.
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