Prosecutors admit key evidence in Trump document case has been tampered with --Legal experts call revelation a "serious violation" as Jack Smith's team admits it also misled court. | 3 May 2024 | In a stunning admission, Special Counsel Jack Smith's team is admitting that key evidence in former President Donald Trump's classified documents criminal case was altered or manipulated since it was seized by the FBI, and that prosecutors misled the court about it for a period of time. Legal experts told Just the News the revelation could prove to be a serious problem for prosecutors and a violation of court rules to preserve evidence in the state it was seized. In a new filing Friday, Smith's team said that the order of documents in some of the boxes of memos that were seized by the FBI from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate was altered or jumbled, leaving two different chronologies: one that was digitally scanned and another the physical order in the boxes... Smith's team, in a footnote, also conceded it had misled the court about the problem by previously declaring that the evidence had remained in the exact state it had been seized.

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