By Emily Saul | August 20, 2024
"The government said it would prosecute Senator Menendez for his alleged agreements to sell official acts in exchange for bribes," the defense filing reads. "But despite a 10-week trial, the government offered no actual evidence of an agreement, just speculation masked as inference."
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Kyle Clark and Andrew T. George | August 19, 2024
The prosecution team in Alec Baldwin's manslaughter case may now realize why they were wrong to charge Baldwin to begin with—as they are being reminded why our criminal law (usually) places great weight on the defendant's state of mind his criminal intent, two Law Journal columnists write.
By Emily Saul | August 19, 2024
Santos, 36, admitted in court that he and a campaign staffer submitted false reports to the Federal Election Commission and stole the identities as credit card information of campaign donors.
By Emily Saul | August 19, 2024
Defense attorneys last week argued that the judge must delay sentencing to give the team time to consider interlocutory appeals.
By Robert S. Whitbeck and Andrea M. Alonso | August 16, 2024
While often involving negligent actors, liability under the Dram Shop Act can extend to intentional, and even criminal, acts. The most critical factor in establishing Dram Shop liability in these instances is establishing a reasonable or practical causal connection between the act and the intoxication.
By Mayling Blanco, Katey Fardelmann, Sarah Perlin and Andrey Spektor | August 15, 2024
In fraud and corruption cases, the Supreme Court and the US government are marching in opposite directions. The DOJ continues to embrace new tools from Congress and the White House—including a newly-passed anti-corruption law—while the Supreme Court has increasingly cut back on the DOJ's broad theories of prosecution. This article examines the implications from the Court's latest opinion, Snyder v. United States, which, if applied to other bribery statutes, could severely limit the DOJ's view that gifts to government officials are no different than bribes.
By Emily Saul | August 14, 2024
"Stated plainly, Defendant's arguments are nothing more than a repetition of stale and unsubstantiated claims," the jurist wrote. "This Court now reiterates for the third time, that which should already be clear—innuendo and mischaracterizations do not a conflict create. Recusal is therefore not necessary, much less required."
By Katharine Lee | August 13, 2024
Santos, whose trial is set to begin next month, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a superseding indictment.
By Emily Saul | August 12, 2024
"The impropriety of granting Santos's request is especially clear in light of what Santos has spent the past nine months doing, namely, courting the press and ginning up the very media attention he now laments may unfairly influence jurors," prosecutors argue.
By Emily Saul | August 9, 2024
"This case presents an extreme example of that overreach, in an area of law that demands clarity yet has become perilously muddled," reads the writ from Barry Berke, Dani James and Darren LaVerne of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.
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