The federal judge presiding over the stock options backdating related criminal prosecution of former Brocade Communications CEO Gregory Reyes has ordered prosecutors to file a response to the defense team’s motion for acquittal by 8 am tomorrow morning. At a hearing on Friday, the Judge grilled prosecutors relentlessly about what evidence had been presented to…
Does anyone have any info about where the case against Tom Delay stands? I seem to recall seeing recently that an appellare court upheld the dismissal of one count in the indictment, but truthfully I wasn’t paying very close attention as I’ve had a lot of other things going on. Anyone?
The UK Telegraph ran this interesting story reporting the results of studies conducted by psychologists at the University of Portsmouth. The study shows that children begin to engage in deceitful behavior as early as 6 months of age. Presumably Patrick Fitzgerald will be issuing indictments shortly.
Reuters reports that the Russian Federation has sued the Bank of New York in the Russian Court of Arbitration for money laundering, and seeks $22.5 billion in damages. I knoe that BNY’s recent history is somewhat sketchy, but there’s just soemthing so absurd about the Russians complaining about money laundering. And I’m sure BNY will…
Cris Arguedas, the renowned California defense lawyer, links on her law firm’s website to an outstanding article that she wrote some years ago in which she describes what are, and what are not, the duties of a criminal defense lawyer. I strongly urge everyone who is interested in the justice process, as well as those…
Jacob Sullum of Reason magazine on the federal hate crimes bill: “Hate crimes have no place in America,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi boldly declared last week, “no place in a nation where we pledge every morning ‘with liberty and justice for all.’” Pelosi was urging her colleagues to approve a bill aimed at violence motivated…
From yesterday’s Times: The company that makes the narcotic painkiller OxyContin and three current and former executives pleaded guilty today in federal court here to criminal charges that they misled regulators, doctors and patients about the drug’s risk of addiction and its potential to be abused. To resolve criminal and civil charges related to the…
My apologies for not posting today. Sometimes the horror of life intervenes. My prayers are with those killed in the shootings at Virginia Tech today, and their families.
Philadelphia lawyer Larry Charles, about whom I posted previously when he was found naked with a 14v year old girl in a room in the Criminal Justice Center, faces charges for assaulting 5 other women, the Inquirer reported this morning. Mr. Charles was found in a Bucks County motel, apparently having suffered a drug overdose.
Taking a break from the Duke Lacrosse Hoax, the Smoking Gun reports that Joe Francis, the brains behind the “Girls Gone Wild” franchise, has been indicted on federal tax evasion charges. This on the heels of Francis’s arrest and detention on a federal civil contempt rap. Not a good week for Mr. Francis. It is…
