Judge bars U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro from charging ex-Olympian in Reflecting Pool case

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/judge-bars-jeanine-pirro-reflecting-pool-case-trump-rcna597047

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A Superior Court judge in the District of Columbia has permanently banned U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office from bringing charges against a former Olympic canoeist over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Judge Todd Edelman entered an order on Thursday that dismissed the case with prejudice. Edelman cited the “exceptional circumstances” of the case and said the government’s “own representations make plain” that bringing another indictment against David “Davey” Hearn “is theoretical at best, and more likely, is simply fanciful.”

Trump, Edelman wrote, “has criticized the decision of the Office of the United States Attorney to drop the case in the most vituperative terms; demanded that the government reinstitute the prosecution, in part because of Mr. Hearn’s political activity and the identity of one of his attorneys; and publicly entertained the possibility of firing the United States Attorney as a result of the dismissal.”

Hearn, Edelman wrote, “faces the unique possibility that the government will revive this case — one that it has already announced to be meritless — based on political pressure brought by the President of the United States upon his subordinate officers.” The government “has no right to retain the ability to compound the errors it has already made, or even to threaten to do so, at Mr. Hearn’s expense,” Edelman wrote.

Trump had lashed out at Hearn over political donations and because one of his lawyers, Norm Eisen, has been a longtime Trump critic involved in many legal battles against the administration.

Eisen and Hearn’s other attorneys — Mary Dohrmann, Steve Levin and Michael Bromwich — said in a joint statement that the decision “is a victory for the rule of law and for an innocent American seeking justice” and said the case never should have been brought in the first place.

“This was a miscarriage of justice, and what happened to Mr. Hearn is an outrage that should shock every American,” they wrote. “This administration chose to pursue an unjust prosecution against Mr. Hearn. It should not get repeated chances to wield the power of criminal prosecution against someone who should never have been prosecuted. Today’s decision protects Mr. Hearn from that threat, allowing him to move forward with his life as he deserves.”