Ed Martin, Trump’s DC prosecutor, dismissed the case of January 6 against the client he represented

The interim prosecutor of the United States of Donald Trump for the Columbia district has made a series of headlines since he assumed the position of the main prosecutor’s office, including his internal work probe of January 6 of the office and his Public Protection Exhibition For Trump Elon Musk’s ally.

A new entry into the Ed Martin The gender is that the lawyer who represented on January 6 the defendants did not officially withdrew their defense representation before he moved, as a prosecutor, to dismiss the remaining cases of January 6 in DC, that is, Martin It still appeared as January 6. The defense lawyer in the file when he moved to say goodbye on January 6.

A piece of reuters highlighting Martin’s dual roles Possible ethical problems noted, since lawyers are generally prohibited “taking both parties in the same case and the regulations of the United States Department of Justice require that lawyers pay the cases involving their former clients for at least one anus”.

When Trump granted the Mass on January 6 Clemency as one of the first presidential acts of his second term on January 20, also ordered The Attorney General “to follow the dismissal with prejudice to the government of all pending accusations against people for their conduct related to events in or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021”. The next day, a presentation of the federal prosecutor of DC, listing Martin as the United States prosecutor, moved to say goodbye The case of Joseph Padilla, who was represented by Martin and convicted of assisting, resisting or preventing officers and other crimes.

It wasn’t until Reuters wrote on the subject that Martin on Wednesday moved to retire As Padilla’s lawyer, writing to the Court in his personal ability that he had not recently been representing Padilla and “requests that the court grant this motion so that the file can accurately reflect this fact.”

Somehow that was not the end of the matter, because a later entry In the file From the Court of DC said that Martin’s membership membership with the court was not updated, so “he is not in good position” and “he is not allowed to present a presentation.” In addition, he said that “the president judge in this case has been notified that he is currently not in good position to present in this court.”

Whatever the agreement with your membership, that is one more reason to have clarified before becoming the main prosecutor. Even if it had not made the difference in the final result of the case that disappears since the order came from the president, it is better to be beyond ethical reproaches, instead of raising potential ethical problems, while presiding to the police in the district.

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