<p>A South Florida federal judge officially dismissed former President Donald Trump’s request for a third party to&nbsp;examine&nbsp;documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago resort in August after an appeals court found she lacked jurisdiction in the case earlier this month.</p> <p>US District Judge Aileen Cannon ordered the matter closed in a one-page order filed Monday&nbsp;<strong>—</strong>&nbsp;11 days after a&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/01/appeals-court-halts-special-master-review-in-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-case/" _mce_href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/01/appeals-court-halts-special-master-review-in-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-case/" target="_blank">three-judge&nbsp;appeals panel&nbsp;ruled</a>&nbsp;Cannon had erred in ordering&nbsp;Brooklyn federal&nbsp;judge&nbsp;Raymond Dearie to scrutinize papers taken from the Palm Beach residence Aug. 8 to determine whether they were covered by&nbsp;executive,&nbsp;attorney-client or other privileges.</p> <p>Cannon’s Sept. 5 order appointing Dearie as special master&nbsp;had slowed the pace of the probe into whether Trump, 76,&nbsp;violated federal law governing the retention of sensitive records by removing presidential papers and&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/02/detailed-inventory-of-trump-mar-a-lago-fbi-raid-released/" _mce_href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/02/detailed-inventory-of-trump-mar-a-lago-fbi-raid-released/" target="_blank">other documents to Mar-a-Lago</a>&nbsp;when he left the White House in January 2021.</p>