Former judge to argue against DOJ in Flynn case next month

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A former judge appointed to argue against the Department of Justice's motion to drop charges against Michael Flynn intends to lay out his case next month, he told a federal court on Monday.

John Gleeson was tapped to argue as a third party in the case after the Trump administration moved to drop its charges against the president's former national security adviser for lying to the FBI.

Gleeson, a former federal judge in New York, proposed a June 10 deadline for his amicus brief.

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, a Clinton appointee who's presiding over the Flynn prosecution, tapped Gleeson for the role and instructed him to present an argument against the Justice Department's unusual motion and also explore whether Flynn committed perjury in reversing an earlier guilty plea.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-judge-to-argue-against-doj-in-flynn-case-next-month/ar-BB14ghXd

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1. 'Unimpeachable Character': John Gleeson, Former Judge and Prosecutor, Returns to Court to Take on

Bill Barr

https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2020/05/15/unimpeachable-character-john-gleeson-former-judge-and-prosecutor-returns-to-court-to-take-on-bill-barr/?slreturn=20200418213602
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A quarter-century ago, in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, John Gleeson remarked that his “whole life” was gathered in the room where he would be formally inducted as a trial judge.

“I don’t want to make you nervous,” he told the crowd, according to a 1995 article in the New Yorker, “but I can think of some people who wouldn’t mind at all if the roof caved in.”
It was a dark, perhaps only half-joking reference to his time as a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, a 10-year tenure headlined by the conviction of John Gotti, the mob boss whose acquittal years earlier earned him the nickname “Teflon Don.”