‘The court now grants’: Judge finally agrees to toss Jan. 6 defendant’s gun case in light of Trump pardon and decisions on where the government’s ‘resources are best spent’

A federal judge in Baltimore finally acceded to the government’s wishes and applied President Donald Trump’s mass pardon for Jan. 6 defendants to a man’s related but discrete gun crime charge.

In a relatively terse four-page memorandum and order, U.S. District Judge James Kelleher Bredar, a Barack Obama appointee, declined to restate the facts in detail – directing readers to his prior orders.

Still, the judge offered a brief summary to say that after some lengthy procedural wrangling up and down the court system, the parties, making good on their last chance, complied with the correct rule of federal civil procedure. Bredar was then obligated to dismiss the case – despite repeatedly registering strong misgivings about the proposed dismissal.

“This Court then concluded that the Pardon does not apply, and directed additional briefing with respect to the Rule 48 Motion,” the memorandum reads. “The Court now grants the Rule 48 Motion.”

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