A federal magistrate judge ordered the Justice Department to hand over all grand jury materials to former FBI Director James Comey on Monday, saying the record shows unusually strong reasons to suspect irregularities in the proceedings.

U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick, who is handling pretrial discovery disputes in the Comey case, said Comey’s team presented “a rare example of a criminal defendant who can actually make a ‘particularized and factually based’ showing” that problems that occurred during the grand jury proceedings may justify dismissing counts of the indictment.

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