{"id":149812,"date":"2020-05-22T21:41:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T21:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/appeals-court-order-in-flynn-case-rare-most-serious-lawyers-say\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T21:41:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T21:41:18","slug":"appeals-court-order-in-flynn-case-rare-most-serious-lawyers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/appeals-court-order-in-flynn-case-rare-most-serious-lawyers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Order in Flynn Case Rare, Most Serious, Lawyers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

The District of Columbia appeals court picked the strongest option to react to a district court judge who has for weeks refused to grant the Justice Departments motion to dismiss the case against former Trump adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.<\/p>\n

The court ordered the judge<\/a> on May 21 to respond within 10 days\u2014a particularly rare move, according to several lawyers whove commented on the matter.<\/p>\n

The court \u201cchose the most extreme, rare, and drastic\u201d of the options it had available, said appellate attorney John Reeves, former assistant Missouri attorney general, in a May 21 series of tweets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is extraordinary,\u201d commented Leslie McAdoo Gordon, an attorney specializing in security and disciplinary cases. In her practice, shes never seen an appeals court directly order a judge to respond, she said in a May 21 tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reeves was only able to find one other case\u2014in 1992.<\/p>\n

Flynn, a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty in 2017 to one count of lying during an FBI interview. In January, the retired Army three-star general disavowed the plea and asked the court to allow him to withdraw it.<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice (DOJ) moved to drop Flynns case<\/a> on May 7, saying the FBI interview wasnt based on a properly predicated investigation<\/a> and \u201cseems to have been undertaken only to elicit those very false statements and thereby criminalize Mr. Flynn.\u201d<\/p>\n

The district judge handling his case, Emmet Sullivan, has so far refused to affirm the dismissal and has instead laid out a schedule that would prolong the case for possibly months to come<\/a>. Hes appointed former federal Judge John Gleeson as an amicus curiae (Friend of Court) \u201cto present arguments in opposition to the governments Motion to Dismiss,\u201d as well as to \u201caddress\u201d whether the court should make the defense explain why \u201cFlynn should not be held in criminal contempt for perjury.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hes also signaled he may allow more amici to join the case.<\/p>\n

Flynns lawyers, led by former Texas prosecutor Sidney Powell, filed on May 19 a petition for a writ of mandamus\u2014a request to the higher court<\/a> to order Sullivan to accept the case dismissal, cancel the Gleeson appointment, and assign the case to another judge.<\/p>\n

In Reeves view, Powell has a \u201cstrong\u201d argument for all three of her requests.<\/p>\n

The appeals courts reaction \u201cshows it is deeply troubled by Judge Sullivans actions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He explained that most writ petitions are denied right away. The fact that the court wants a response \u201cshows it is concerned and wants to hear more about the matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In such situations, the Appeals Court has three options. The first and most common one is to appoint an amicus curiae who would present an argument on behalf of the judge. The second option is to \u201cinvite\u201d the judge to address the petition personally.<\/p>\n

The most serious option is to order the judge to respond.<\/p>\n

That means that the judge (and his clerks) will have to personally \u201csubmit written briefing trying to legally justify his refusal to dismiss the Flynn case,\u201d Reeves said.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the order included a reference to a 2016 case where the court ruled that a judge has only a \u201cnarrow\u201d role when prosecutors send him a motion to dismiss a case.<\/p>\n

\u201cDecisions to dismiss pending criminal charges\u2014no less than decisions to initiate charges and to identify which charges to bring\u2014lie squarely within the ken of prosecutorial discretion,\u201d the ruling stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThats not subtle,\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n

The Epoch Times<\/a><\/h5>\n

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