A Third Circuit panel on Thursday upheld a roughly 24-year prison sentence imposed on a Pennsylvania man convicted of marijuana trafficking and wire fraud, rejecting arguments that the trial judge improperly relied on acquitted conduct, overstated the man’s leadership role and imposed an excessive punishment. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

A health supplement company’s CEO, who was largely acquitted of federal fraud and conspiracy charges last month, asked a Georgia federal judge Friday to toss the lone conviction he faced, arguing that allowing the charge to stand “would constitute a miscarriage of justice.” Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

A Georgia federal jury acquitted Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals’ chief executive on the bulk of the conspiracy, fraud and money laundering charges leveled against him, rejecting allegations that he cheated his customers by drawing up bogus quality certificates. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

A Georgia-based dietary supplement outfit and its longtime CEO urged a Peach State jury Wednesday to acquit them of charges that they forged regulatory documents and slipped prescription drugs into their pills, deriding the federal charges against them as “regulation by prosecution.” 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) )

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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