White Collar
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A West Virginia doctor who was convicted of handing out illegal opioid prescriptions will get a new trial after the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that the lower court had improperly allowed prosecutors to present evidence that wasn’t directly related to the doctor’s alleged crimes… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Federal prosecutors on Friday tore into a dismissal bid lodged by a former senior Apple attorney indicted for insider trading, saying the lawyer’s argument that the criminal case against him is unconstitutional is the legal equivalent of “a Hail Mary pass”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has decided that President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen won’t have to serve the rest of his three-year prison sentence behind bars due to concerns related to COVID-19, according to multiple media reports Wednesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned Thursday against prisons becoming “cautionary tales” amid the COVID-19 pandemic, after Justice Samuel Alito shot down a bid by a group of Texas prisoners seeking to enforce a lower court’s order on their facility’s virus protection policies… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Massachusetts federal judge said Thursday that two parents who pled guilty in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions case can delay reporting for their prison sentences due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, while denying their requests to serve their sentences at home… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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