Judge hands Trump major legal victory, dismissing classified documents charges
![FILE - In this image from video provided by the U.S. Senate, Aileen M. Cannon speaks remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight nomination hearing to be U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on July 29, 2020, in Washington. The federal judge overseeing the Florida classified documents case against Donald Trump is holding a hearing about a potential conflict of interest involving a co-defendant's lawyer. A dark haired woman wearing glasses is shown in a video still from a Zoom meeting.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7263686.1721052323!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/trump-classified-documents.jpg)
A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of illegally holding onto classified documents, dealing the former president another major legal victory in what some analysts believed was the most challenging case he was facing among his four criminal indictments.