A former Nigerian oil minister and two alleged associates were cleared by a London jury on Wednesday of accepting or seeking bribes from energy executives. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

A doctor convicted of making false statements in connection with an $ 11 million Medicare fraud scheme is urging a North Carolina federal court to exclude conduct she says she was acquitted of from her sentencing calculation, while the government argues she’s mischaracterizing the outcome of the case.  Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

A D.C. federal jury handed prosecutors a loss on Monday, finding that a pair of consulting company executives were not guilty of bribing a top U.S. Navy admiral with a lucrative post-retirement job in exchange for government contracts. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

Christopher Ellis, a Brooklyn man who spent decades imprisoned for murder, was released after a New York trial judge vacated his conviction, finding his attorneys had been denied hundreds of pages of police notes pointing to at least 11 other suspects. He is now suing the Nassau County Police Department, alleging civil rights violations. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

A Washington, D.C., federal jury Tuesday acquitted a former senior adviser to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors of conspiring to steal confidential data for Chinese intelligence. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

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) )

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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