Law Practice
May 12, 2017
Defense scores 'own goal' in criminal insider trading case
Lawyers mistakenly handed a jury evidence of alleged prior bad acts by the defendant client, thought the jury got it from the internet.
By Meghann M. Cuniff
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SANTA ANA ? A document redaction mistake by defense lawyers in a major insider trading trial resulted in deliberating jurors learning something not typically known of criminal defendants: One of them also was charged in a civil complaint by the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission.
Lawyers with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, repres...
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