Walt Nauta, a co-defendant in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case, is asking a judge to dismiss his charges over claims the Department of Justice unfairly targeted him, according to recently unsealed court filings.
Nauta’s defense attorneys said their client’s decision to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights at one point during the initial stages of the investigation had prompted the DOJ to punish Nauta by prosecuting him, when others had engaged in the “same type of conduct” that Nauta did, the attorneys wrote.
Nauta made the dismissal request in February, but it had been sealed until Friday evening. The Florida court docket shows Trump filed a similar argument that his charges should be dismissed on the grounds that they were “selective and vindictive,” but the actual filing remains sealed.
Judge Aileen Cannon has over the past week unsealed several previously nonpublic filings,
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