June 11, 2024
The painstaking process of jury selection got underway Tuesday in the retrial of a securities fraud case that ended with a dramatic mistrial after a juror announced in open court that he disagreed with the guilty verdict that had just been delivered by the jury forewoman.
June 04, 2024
Fox Rothschild LLP partner Ernest E. Badway can't serve as an expert witness for a businessman facing retrial on securities fraud claims, a New Jersey federal judge ruled Tuesday, siding with the government's contention that the testimony would be irrelevant.
May 15, 2024
In a renewed bid, the government has urged a New Jersey federal court to bar a Fox Rothschild LLP partner from testifying as an expert witness in the retrial of a securities fraud case that ended in a dramatic mistrial, arguing that his testimony would constitute an irrelevant and an improper bid to bolster the defense.
April 23, 2024
The government is seeking to bar a Fox Rothschild LLP partner from testifying as an expert witness for the defense in the retrial of a federal securities fraud case that ended in a dramatic mistrial after a lone juror told the judge that he disagreed with the guilty verdict the forewoman had delivered to the court.
December 20, 2023
The retrial of a federal securities fraud case that ended in a dramatic mistrial after a lone juror told the judge that he disagreed with the guilty verdict the forewoman had delivered to the court has been scheduled for May 29, according to the court file.
December 06, 2023
The occasional mistrial in a fact-heavy criminal case is a job hazard prosecutors and defense attorneys have come to expect, but a lone juror's sudden sabotage of a guilty verdict last week was a first to many in the Newark, New Jersey, federal courthouse.
December 01, 2023
A juror's declaration disagreeing with his colleagues' initially reported guilty verdict resulted in a mistrial on Friday in the New Jersey case of a former CEO accused of duping investors into thinking he had a viable contract to deliver tens of millions of COVID-19 test kits.
November 28, 2023
It all boils down to who knew what when, jurors in New Jersey federal court were told Tuesday regarding whether the ex-head of a struggling company exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to dupe investors or was the victim of a legitimate business deal gone bad.
November 02, 2023
The former head of a struggling company exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to dupe investors into thinking he had a viable contract to deliver millions of test kits, a New Jersey federal jury heard Thursday.