Last month, a jury acquitted police officer Jeronimo Yanez of manslaughter for killing black motorist Philando Castile during a traffic stop. Castile was a victim of America’s mass-production approach to criminal justice, which features largely unaccountable and inadequately trained police enforcing frequently unjustifiable laws in a system riddled with disregard for fundamental fairness, says Clark Neily of the Cato Institute. ...

A federal judge in Massachusetts said Friday he will release the names of jurors who convicted a pharmacist of fraud and acquitted him of murder — and indicated, with an unusual series of numbers, how they were voting. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A former saleswoman connected to a $ 30 million Russian microchip export scheme asked a New York federal judge on Friday to prevent a retrial on two charges, saying she cannot be retried on the conspiracy charge and should be acquitted on the other. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A former state district judge in Texas, who had to leave the bench and had her law license suspended following her conviction on nine felony charges for bribery and money laundering, was declared innocent Wednesday, acquitted of all charges after the state agreed the evidence couldn’t support her conviction. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

An Illinois attorney says he was set up to be charged with his wife’s murder by a local police department and the state’s attorney’s office where he used to work, claiming in a federal complaint that the charges for which he was acquitted wrecked his law practice and forced him to skip town. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A Manhattan jury on Monday issued a split verdict in the long-running criminal case against top executives of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, acquitting the defunct law firm’s executive director but convicting its former chief financial officer on fraud and conspiracy charges. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A federal judge has refused to acquit a Florida ophthalmologist linked to New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez who was found guilty of overbilling Medicare by $ 32 million for unnecessary eye injections, finding the jury had sufficient evidence to return its verdict against the doctor. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

The New England Compounding Center pharmacist convicted of racketeering in March over a deadly meningitis outbreak asked a federal judge on Monday for a new trial, saying that the government’s focus on second-degree murder charges on which he was acquitted tainted the entire trial. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

Prosecutors told a California federal judge Thursday that former Major League Baseball player Doug DeCinces and his associates can’t be acquitted because there’s more than enough evidence to tie them to trading on nonpublic tips about a medical device company, but the ex-CEO in the case said the feds were twisting facts. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

Former Major League Baseball player Doug DeCinces asked a California federal court Wednesday to acquit him of insider trading charges, saying the government has provided no proof, before trial or during, that he profited from nonpublic merger tips about a friend’s medical device company. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))