Prosecutors have urged a California federal judge to sentence ex-Google software engineer Linwei Ding to nearly 6 years in prison for stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets, while Ding argued that the government’s suggestion is based on speculative evidence and he deserves only home confinement since he was acquitted of economic espionage. 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) )

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More than 100 former state attorneys general have signed on to an amici brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn former Alabama governor Don Siegelman’s six-and-a-half-year sentence for bribery, saying acquitted conduct should not be used to increase a criminal sentence as it was in Siegelman’s case. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))