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Judge officially tosses case accusing ex-Olympian of criminally vandalizing Reflecting Pool
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A judge on Thursday officially tossed out a case the Justice Department brought against former Olympian David Hearn, whom they had accused of feloniously vandalizing the Reflecting Pool earlier this summer.
3x-Olympian: Being charged with damaging Reflecting Pool doesn’t feel like “the land of the free and the home of the brave”(CNN) — A judge on Thursday officially tossed out a case the Justice Department brought against former Olympian David Hearn, whom they had accused of feloniously vandalizing the Reflecting Pool earlier this summer.
Judge Todd Edelman stopped short of barring prosecutors in Washington, DC, from being able to revive the same case against Hearn in the future, as his attorneys had asked.
The stunning about-face from the Justice Department last Friday angered Trump, who lashed out both publicly and privately at US Attorney Jeanine Pirro for rescinding the case.
Hearn’s lawyers told the judge on Tuesday that they were concerned the case could be brought again given Trump’s frustration over how it was handled.