A federal judge turned away a Department of Justice request to hold the office of former President Donald Trump in contempt for not complying with a grand jury subpoena regarding the return of classified documents to the National Archives, NBC News reported.
According to the report, U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell for the District of Columbia made the ruling denying the DOJ’s request following a closed hearing in Washington Friday.
News outlets and the public were not allowed in the proceeding, which took about 90 minutes, according to reporters who witnessed the attorneys in the case entering and exiting the courtroom.
The Washington Post reported that federal prosecutors requested the contempt charge for Trump’s office after two documents marked as “classified” were recently discovered in a storage unit not far from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
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