Judge bars U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro from charging ex-Olympian in Reflecting Pool case

WASHINGTON — A Superior Court judge in the District of Columbia has permanently banned U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office from bringing charges against an Olympic canoeist over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Judge Todd Edelman entered an order Thursday that dismissed the case with prejudice. Edelman cited the “exceptional circumstances” of the case and said the government’s “own representations make plain” that bringing another indictment against David “Davey” Hearn “is theoretical at best, and more likely, is simply fanciful.” Trump, Edelman wrote, “has criticized the decision of the Office of the United States Attorney to drop the case in the most vituperative terms; demanded that the government reinstitute the prosecution, in part because of Mr.