Kenneth Ravenell, who was represented on appeal by attorneys from Skadden and Schulte Roth, was convicted of conspiracy to commit money laundering charges in relation to his legal work for several Baltimore drug dealers in the early aughts.
April 25, 2023 at 04:50 PM
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In a dispute that raised tough Sixth Amendment questions about how a lawyer interacts with a client, a federal appeals court has affirmed the RICO conviction of a Baltimore attorney in an opinion published Tuesday morning.
“No lawyer has the ‘right’ to accept illegally procured gains ‘in payment of a fee’,” wrote Circuit Judge Harvie Wilkinson in a Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit opinion affirming the conviction of former Murphy, Falcon & Murphy attorney Kenneth Ravenell.
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