A former Internal Revenue Service agent can’t shake a claim alleging he violated the constitutional rights of a man who was ultimately acquitted of income tax evasion, a West Virginia federal judge ruled Monday. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A divided Ninth Circuit on Tuesday ordered a lower court to resentence a man caught at the U.S.-Mexico border with 130 pounds of marijuana stashed in a truck, ruling the limited-English speaker was deprived of his right to an interpreter during a sentencing hearing. Law360: acquitted

An ex-partner with the now-defunct Fineburg McCarthy PC law firm filed a Pennsylvania state court suit Friday against accountants and companies he says wrongfully ensnared him in a criminal case — in which he was ultimately acquitted — over the mafia-led plundering of a mortgage lender. Law360: acquitted