A federal magistrate judge on Wednesday sharply questioned the Justice Department's handling of evidence in its criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, describing prosecutors' conduct as "highly unusual" and indicative of a rushed effort to indict Comey while potentially violating his constitutional rights. "We're in a bit of a feeling of indict first, investigate second," Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick said in a motions hearing in Alexandria, Virginia. The hearing stemmed from a dispute raised by Comey's attorneys over evidence the government obtained through four separate search warrants in 2019 and 2020 targeting the devices and communications of Daniel Richman, a Columbia law professor and associate of Comey's who he previously used as an intermediary to speak to t

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