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Another Setback for Prosecutors in the Overcriminalization Wars: Reyes' Backdating Conviction is Reversed

By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring

My colleague Larry Ribstein has the details at Ideoblog.  Hopefully, this case won't become the West Coast equivalent of the futile repeat prosecutions of Frank Quattrone that ended with deferred prosecution before his third trial.  Surely in a world of finite resources, the DOJ could spend these millions elsewhere?

Full post as published by Conglomerate on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).