The judge in former president Donald Trump’s classified documents case has ordered the preparation of jury instructions in a way that demands the parties to both consider competing sets of facts, on the premise that President Trump designated the documents he kept at his Mar-a-Lago home as “personal records,” and on the premise that a jury must determine if prosecutors have proven they are not.
U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon issued an order on March 18 requiring President Trump’s attorneys and special counsel Jack Smith’s team each to prepare and file their respective preliminary jury instructions along with proposed verdict forms by April 2.
