By: Sara Kropf The Tenth Circuit recently issued an opinion affecting criminal securities cases and making it slightly harder for the government to prevail at trial. In United States v. McKye (No. 12-6108), the Tenth Circuit reversed the jury’s verdict for the...
By: Sara Kropf For most white-collar cases, the key issue at sentencing is the calculation of the loss amount. Although not mandatory, the Sentencing Guideline range will unquestionably influence the final sentence. And the Guidelines rely heavily on the loss amount...
By: Sara Kropf I know the public gets sick of lawyers and our filings and our appeals. I don’t. Because when you are a criminal defense lawyer, your job is to be dogged and relentless. We don’t give up. We exhaust every possibility. This is not commercial litigation....
By: Sara Kropf Finally…a case that is not connected to the Galleon insider trading investigation, or SAC Capital or, any of the usual white-collar suspects. In Galpin, the Second Circuit addressed the scope of the government’s search of a defendant’s computer hard...
By: Sara Kropf Last week was a huge week for the Supreme Court. I’ll leave it to the experts to talk about DOMA, Prop 8 and the Voting Rights Act. And let’s not forget that there were a few important criminal cases that did nothing good for defendants’ constitutional...