A federal appeals court in Washington appeared inclined Tuesday to let a judge decide on his own whether to grant the Justice Department's request to dismiss the criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in Washington appeared inclined Tuesday to let a judge decide on his own whether to grant the Justice Department's request to dismiss the criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn.
A ruling against Flynn would not undo his guilty plea or end the case but simply return it to Sullivan for a hearing on the government's request to dismiss. She told Jeffrey Wall, the acting solicitor general, that by urging Sullivan to dismiss the case, it was asking him to contradict an action he had taken nearly two years ago when he accepted Flynn's guilty plea at the urging of the Justice Department.“What self-respecting ... judge would simply jump and enter an order without doing what he could do to understand both sides?" Pillard asked.
Flynn was the only White House official charged in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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