# FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 8, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329 "2022-08-08T23:18:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 808
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/808 "2022-08-13T02:08:35Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Like Merrick Garland keeps saying, he will proceed without fear or favor wherever the evidence leads. That’s how it should be done. I have confidence in him. Political appointees should set broad policy guidelines and stay out of the way when it comes to individual charging decisions. As for what the career prosecutors should do, they should make a case if there is a high chance of success in court. In this case, that means staying away from a jury trial where one Trumper would be enough to prevent conviction. [Here’s the relevant rule:](https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/the-right-trial-jury.html): > [@](#): > > According to the Supreme Court, the jury-trial right applies only when “serious” offenses are at hand—petty offenses don’t invoke it. For purposes of this right, a serious offense is one that carries a potential sentence of more than six months’ imprisonment. Charge him with violating the Espionage Act, and you are handing him another big win, just like the Democrats did with impeachment. Charge him with stealing a few papers rightfully the property of the Nation Archives, and that might get an actual deserved conviction. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329)._