A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday lectured counsel in the high-profile civil case against Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman acquitted of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend, to honor their ethical obligations after sensitive information leaked on social media. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

A Michigan man who spent more than 15 years in prison before being acquitted at a new trial has sued more than a dozen Detroit police officers, alleging they fabricated evidence, hid proof that undercut the case, and coerced a wounded witness into falsely identifying him in a 2007 shooting. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

A Manhattan judge declared a mistrial Friday on a rape charge against Harvey Weinstein following a deadlock where most jurors voted to acquit the once-powerful Hollywood producer, ending a three-week trial that leaned heavily on the credibility of a single accuser and put questions of consent at the center 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) )

A Texas federal judge has acquitted a Mexican businessman living in the U.S. whom a jury convicted of bribing foreign officials to secure business from Mexico’s state-owned oil company, saying prosecutors didn’t provide the translators who interpreted evidence at trial for cross-examination. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

A Connecticut Supreme Court justice on Wednesday faulted the state legislature for failing to detail how a state constitutional amendment protects alleged crime victims’ rights, leaving others on the court to question whether or how to acknowledge the competing rights of a former Yale University student acquitted of sexual assault. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

Yale University and a sexual assault accuser on Monday appeared poised to escape an expelled student’s defamation lawsuit, with a federal judge saying the criminally acquitted ex-student failed to disclose other misconduct allegations and led online followers to reveal the accuser’s identity despite orders banning him from directly naming her. 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) )