Trump Valet Petitions Judge To Toss Seized Evidence

Law & Crime reports:

One of the co-defendants in former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents case is asking the judge in charge to rule that the evidence seized during the execution of the search warrant should be suppressed — ruled legally unfit to be used in the upcoming trial.

In a filing this week, Walt Nauta argued the warrants used to execute the searches were invalid for various reasons, and the “evidentiary fruits” of those searches should be suppressed under the Fourth Amendment.

To hear Nauta tell it, the FBI’s affidavits used to support the search warrants did not contain sufficient probable cause.

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‘No valid basis to allege a criminal violation’: Trump valet wants all Mar-a-Lago search evidence suppressed under 4th Amendment – cites Scalia opinion on ‘general warrants’ https://t.co/j0yZQWZ7CL

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