When the criminal retrial of two former Dewey & LeBoeuf executives began in January, observers wondered if defense lawyers would once again decline to put on their own case after the prosecution finished making its pitch to the jury.

Counsel for former Dewey CFO Joel Sanders and former executive director Stephen DiCarmine put that mystery to rest on Monday, telling a Manhattan judge that they would let the trial proceed to summations without putting either defendant on the stand or calling their own witnesses.

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