Former President Donald J. Trump’s felony indictment on expenses stemming from his dealing with of labeled paperwork will likely be overseen — at the least initially — by a federal choose whom the next court docket criticized for a collection of rulings that have been unusually favorable to Mr. Trump throughout the early levels of the investigation, in keeping with 5 folks aware of the matter.

The choose, Aileen M. Cannon, who Mr. Trump appointed to the bench in 2020, is scheduled — at the least for now — to preside over the previous president’s first look in Federal District Court in Miami on Tuesday, the folks mentioned. But it was not clear whether or not Judge Cannon would stay assigned for the whole lot of Mr. Trump’s case.

Judge Cannon’s involvement was earlier reported by ABC News.

Angela Noble, the chief clerk of court docket for the Southern District of Florida, mentioned in an e-mail alternate with The New York Times final fall that new circumstances are randomly assigned among the many judges within the district, fairly than robotically assigned to a choose who has heard a associated matter.

The probabilities that Judge Cannon would randomly obtain the task have been low. There are 15 active Federal District Court judges in South Florida, together with 11 on senior standing who’re nonetheless assigned to listen to circumstances however at a lowered workload.

Ms. Noble additionally pointed to a rule that enables both occasion in a brand new case to ask for a case to be transferred to a different choose who’s already overseeing the same and associated matter that’s nonetheless pending, to keep away from pointless overlap. But Mr. Trump’s earlier lawsuit is now not pending earlier than Judge Cannon.

Last fall, she presided over an uncommon and extremely contentious authorized battle between the Justice Department and Mr. Trump’s legal professionals over whether or not to pause the paperwork investigation in order that an outdoor arbiter might overview 1000’s of data seized by the F.B.I. from Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s non-public membership and residence in Florida.

Ruling for Mr. Trump, Judge Cannon effectively froze a significant portion of the government’s inquiry, barring prosecutors from utilizing the supplies seized from Mar-a-Lago for any “investigative purpose” related to the case towards Mr. Trump till the work of the arbiter, generally known as a particular grasp, was completed.

An appeals court docket sitting in Atlanta finally overruled Judge Cannon, scrapped the particular grasp’s overview and allowed the investigation of Mr. Trump to renew unhindered.

In a sharply important determination, a three-member panel of the appeals court docket mentioned Judge Cannon by no means had the right jurisdiction to intervene within the case and order the overview. The court docket additionally chided her for stopping federal investigators from utilizing the information seized from Mar-a-Lago, saying there was no justification for treating Mr. Trump in another way from every other goal of a search warrant.

“It is indeed extraordinary for a warrant to be executed at the home of a former president — but not in a way that affects our legal analysis or otherwise gives the judiciary license to interfere in an ongoing investigation,” the court docket wrote.