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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) )

Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman acquitted of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend, sued witnesses from her trial, claiming she was framed for the crime and that local law enforcement allowed the scheme by “intentionally sidestepping fundamental investigatory procedures.” 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 Massachusetts law intended to give defendants acquitted of criminal charges a fresh start by automatically sealing a court’s record does not prevent them or their attorneys from accessing the files, the state’s high court ruled on Tuesday. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

The Miami Lakes Town Council has signed off on a $ 100,000 settlement with Becker & Poliakoff PC to resolve the municipality’s lawsuit over a former firm lobbyist’s role in an FBI sting operation that led to the arrest of the town’s later-acquitted mayor. 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) )

A New York state jury on Monday convicted a former correction officer of murder for beating a prisoner to death in December, and acquitted two more officers of charges following a two-week trial. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

Tornado Cash’s Roman Storm on Tuesday urged a New York federal court to acquit the cryptocurrency tumbler co-founder of enabling more than $ 1 billion in money laundering transactions, as questions remain even among government officials about criminal liability for software developers of open-source privacy tech. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

Deutsche Bank has been hit with legal claims in London by five former employees who were convicted and subsequently acquitted for aiding false accounting and market manipulation in one of Italy’s biggest financial sandals, according to High Court filings published Tuesday.  Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

A Maryland judge on Friday blasted federal prosecutors for seeking an enhanced sentence for a former biotech executive convicted of fraud for his role in the CytoDyn stock inflation scheme, saying the government wanted a harsher sentence for allegations he was already acquitted of at trial. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )