A Massachusetts psychiatrist convicted over an alleged scheme to import and dispense nonapproved forms of addiction medication on Thursday told the First Circuit the trial judge wrongly ran afoul of limitations on the consideration of acquitted conduct in federal sentencings when handing him a three-year prison term. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

Charlie Javice, the startup founder convicted of lying to JPMorgan Chase ahead of its $ 175 million purchase of her college-aid website Frank, and her former colleague have failed to show good reasons why they should now be acquitted, the judge on her case has found. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

In a seeming reversal of a Tuesday order, the Connecticut Appellate Court on Wednesday allowed the ACLU’s Connecticut litigation arm and five other legal advocacy groups to file friend-of-the-court briefs in a case questioning whether an unapproved amicus brief in a separate case defamed an acquitted ex-Yale student. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

A Fourth Circuit panel ordered a new trial for a doctor who received a judge’s acquittal after a jury found him guilty of alleged healthcare fraud, finding that the jury had sufficient evidence to convict, but the case was “close,” and the district court was correct in hedging and allowing another shot at the case. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

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