Special counsel Jack Smith made a 'mistake' when he charged former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case in Florida and not Washington, D.C., a legal expert has said.Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe suggested that the decision from Smith's office not to indict the former president in the nation's capital may prove costly for the federal prosecutor due to decisions being made by Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge assigned to the case.
However, Smith opted to charge Trump in Florida, where he is accused of hoarding the classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach and attempting to obstruct the federal attempt to retrieve them.The move was believed to be an attempt to prevent Trump's lawyers from arguing that the charges were filed in the wrong place, or that the former president would not be able to get a fair jury in the district where he received just five percent of the vote in 2020.
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