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Judge Aileen Cannon had been on the Federal Bank for a little more than a year when a senior judge offered to preside one of her first criminal lawsuits in her isolated Zuid -Florida -court building.
"It is very lonely," Senior Senior Paul C. Huck told CNN of Fort Pierce, a small fishing and citrus community on the edge of the southern district of Florida, where cannon is the only federal court."It is a beautiful sleepy city. With a beautiful sleepy courtroom."
Huck - chairman of the criminal case in March 2022 - not because Cannon needed help, he said, but because he enjoys volunteering in the courts in the courts above Florida.
"I thought I would go there and just spend some time with her and get to know her better," said Huck about Cannon, whom he remembered as "very smart" and "very nacn."
Two years later, Cannon is now chairman of one of the most consequences and complex cases in America: the criminal persecution of former President Donald Trump about his handling of the secrets of the nation.
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Since Trump was charged for the first time a year ago, Cannon haspulled out of the caseIn a way that legal scientists has fumped and made a test that was originally planned to start last monthWait for an indefinite period.
Several lawyers who practiced before the cannon - and who spoke with CNN for this story - pointed to her insulation as an explanation for her behavior.Cannon's lonely position in Fort Pierce Courthouse, who rarely sees high profiled actions, robes her of the informal, daily interactions with various experienced judges who are sitting at the other courthouse and could give her advice, the lawyers told CNN.
They also said that Cannon's lack of process experience, both as a lawyer and a judge, is revealed.She is only chairman of a handful of criminal lawsuits - and Huck took over one of them.
For this report of the judicial behavior of Cannon, CNN spoke with ten lawyers who have had cases - both criminals and citizens - for her.Before they practice.
To confirm their characterisations of Cannon's approach, CNN assessed the public docks of dozens of things that have occurred through its courtroom.
The lawyers described Cannon as extremely diligent and well prepared, a hard question that does not accept anything at nominal value and attentive in her decisions.the bank more in general.
These trends include a preference to deduce irrelevant legal issues from core problems, a zero testing approach to technical defects in archiving and a struggle for dock control that makes the type of test dias possible that other judges would decide in weeks of not resolved companies.
"She is not effective," said a lawyer who practices in South Florida."She's a lot of shape about drugs."
Another lawyer described her as 'indecisive'.
A third lawyer who had cases before Cannon said: "She just seems overwhelmed by the trial."
'You can't really take problems with her'
Five months after Huck Cannon visited in Fort Pierce, she was printed in the center of back-to-back legal hurricanes.First she brought Trump to a challenging FBI's search for his Mar-A-Lago residence in August van Classified documents spread over the real estate.Only to see her decisions turnof a conservative profession.)
Then in a fate of a fate, Cannon received the criminal case in which Trump is charged with 40 Felonycounts from Vermeede misunderstood classified documents and obstacle for the government's attempt to find them.
The highly profiled national security case is a dramatic deviation from most other criminal cases that take place in the courtroom of the cannon, the majority of which are more daily prosecution as the arms tax or immigration violations are often resolved by guilty plea, a CNN evaluation was shown.
Cannon's assignment for the documents was an opportunity game.Although the charges were filed in West Palm Beach, the division, the home of Mar-A-Lago, Kanon was randomly chosen from a wider pole of jury members in the southern district of Florida.
Judge Aileen Cannon in the court on March 14, 2024.
Her approach as a lawyer who is detailed by the lawyer who deals with the boring-PRO-Prey who is unique to be operated by a defense team who wants to postpone the case..
She has still not decided not to determine basic questions that will determine whether the Trump case will come to court.Planned a hearing later this month.
Some lawyers who have previously practiced have dealt with her struggle the practical logistics to be a judge in her background of particularly appeal to the local American law firm.From decision -making on the environment that is required by procedural judges that start.
When Cannon Slowly Loves Through the Backlog of Questions on Her Plate, Prosecutors Learn to Special Advisers from first -hand anger can incur from the Judge of Seemingly Minor Inconsistencies in Their Archives Have Pulled Pulled Pulled Pulled Pulled pulledSolving the problems with material research that have delayed the pace of the case for a crawling.
"You can't really take problems with her, otherwise it will work against you," said a fourth lawyer who practiced before Cannon.
Trump's lawyers have also attracted heat from Canon, although much less often than the special adviser.
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Lawyers of the defense CNN spoke with described Cannon as a judge who gives at least respect to the defendants and as a "notorious" hard penalty.
"She is certainly not a sympathy for most defendants, and she certainly plays a different game with the current suspect for her," another lawyer told CNN, referring to Trump.
Nothing taken against nominal value
Not every lawyer who spoke with CNN about their experience for Canon was crucial.
Veterans in her courtroom were generally agreed on an aspect of the junction of the cannon: that lawyers must expect that she is investigating sharply in all allegations in her courtroom, regardless of the party, with a resistance to take someone through their words.
"She doesn't like a lawsuit to tell her what to do," said one of the lawyers.
Many remembered that she rejected common movements - such as criminal regulations or requests to postpone the procedure - even though there was no dispute between the two parties.
"You can't assume that only because there is an agreement between the parties she wants to become a member," said one of the lawyers and described her as an "incredible hands of" judge "who wants to become a decision -maker for everything."
Criminal defense lawyers who practice for Cannon appreciate that, despite being a former lawyer for the Ministry of Justice, she does not automatically expose them to the claims of public prosecutors and cutbacks on the stereotype of judges who always fail on the government.
"She doesn't like the government and plays bully, steam roller," said one of the lawyers.
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In the Trump case, Cannon repeatedly brought the lawyers of Smith to use broad generalizations to support their requests - a practice that can come off officers of other courts - and extreme specificity with the public prosecutors who herto ask.
Her intense control is expanding whether lawyers follow granular procedural rules for submitting submissions to her court.To reject a gag orderRequest that Smith submitted after Trump wrongly claimed that the FBI had a plan to kill him during the Mar-A-Lago search.
She did it because she discovered that prosecutors had run through local rules that had to give them to give the opposite side sufficient time to consult them on request.
Practice is reflected in different courts that are assessed by CNN, including at least two other examples in which Cannon refused decisions because she said that lawyers did not have each other.
One of the lawyers who spoke with CNN described Cannon's approach to the procedural rules of the police as "I decide what it will be like and if you don't want to do what I tell you that it is a problem."
Lawyers pointed out that she is not the only judge in the federal bank who does not give a leeway for even the lessest of procedural errors, but some said that her determination of technical matters led them to be spoiled in detail.
In the case of Trump, it took almost three months that several important experimental movements were even thrown after the difficult process process, which would be edited in the public archives.Only arguments have been planned so far.
And Cannon still has to do with all the other things that take place in the Fort Pierce Division while navigating in the Trump case.
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Irrelevant concepts
Cannon repeatedly pulled the lawyers in the Trump case for hearings about trials of the case classified documents - various legal experts say that seem to be tangentially or even irrelevant.
Florida CNN's lawyers said that it is understandable for a new judge to keep hearings about issues that could be more experienced with the trade, and they do not owe her to be particularly thorough in theIncredibly high stakes Trump -S.
Yet Cannon asked questions in the Trump case that appears from the left field.
In March, for example, Cannon ordered lawyers to draw up jury instructions, in view of the presidential register, the federal law required a departing president, must return government registers to national archives at the end of their administration registers.
In addition to experts and the office of the specialized adviser, the request as a procedure too early and legally unhealthy about how it entertained a Rand theory of the Trump team.Cannon defended TestyThe exercise as a "real attempt" to understand the attitude of the parties.
Her orientation on such legal rabbit holes is no different for the Trump case, says veterans in her courtroom.
"She seems to intervene in concepts that for some reason become interesting for her, whether they are relevant to the current case - or decide that they are important for reasons that the rest of the parties in the courtroom avoid," "said one of the lawyers.
Her lack of process experience, before her appointment stands out between the other judges, confirmed to the Southern Florida Federal Court during De Beet, Trump and Obama administrations - who all had extensive process lawyers before their appointment of the Federal Bank.Suppose they have been worried that her decisions have made it more likely that their affairs would appeal.
A lawyer told CNN that if he has a case assigned to Cannon, he asks the party of the opponent or they have agreed to be treated by a judge judge, a kind of judge who is not all the power ofThe American district has a judge, but can handle a number of types of cases.
In the end, almost every lawyer CNN said that Canon, despite the criticism, is unwavering in her conviction in how at any case in her courtroom should continue.
As a lawyer puts it: "She means what she is doing is correct."
CNN's Sara Murray has contributed to this report.
