A political consultant convicted of knowingly failing to register as a foreign agent as she helped draft a $ 50 million contract involving a former congressman and Venezuela’s state-owned oil enterprise continues to argue she should be acquitted or given a new trial, saying the verdict was “against the great weight of the evidence.” 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 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) )

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) )

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