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What’s going on today?
- Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro reaches plea deal with Georgia prosecutors.
- Tesla gets DOJ help in a lawsuit challenging a direct-sales ban.
- GM matches Ford’s wage hike to UAW in bid to end auto strike.
- Plus, your week in review.
Have a great weekend!
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Sacramento, California, February 28, 2022. REUTERS/Fred Greaves
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A Maryland judge was fatally shot in the driveway of his home on Thursday evening, police said, triggering a manhunt for a suspect that authorities said was involved in a divorce case that was heard in the judge’s court earlier in the day.
Maryland Circuit Court Associate Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52, was found outside his home in Hagerstown with multiple gunshot wounds, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said on Friday.
The suspect, 49-year-old Pedro Argote, was scheduled to attend a divorce hearing before the judge on Thursday but failed to show up, the sheriff said. Read more.
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Donald Trump’s legal woes
- In New York …
Donald Trump made a voluntary appearance at his civil fraud trial and used it to complain that it is distracting from his campaign to reclaim the White House in 2024.
- In Washington, D.C. …
Federal prosecutors said Trump does not have immunity from criminal charges brought by U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith for trying to reverse his 2020 U.S. presidential election loss, opposing his bid to dismiss the case … Lawyers for Trump filed a notice to appeal the partial gag order by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan barring Trump from making public statements that “target” U.S. prosecutors, court staff and potential witnesses involved in the case.
- In London …
Trump’s decision to declassify evidence given by ex-British spy Christopher Steele over the former U.S. president’s alleged links with Russia led to the disappearance of two sources, Steele said in court documents made public this week.
From the bench
A federal court in southern Texas quickly moved to reassign about 3,500 bankruptcy cases after the sudden resignation of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones, over his failure to disclose a long-term romantic relationship with an attorney whose firm had many cases before his court … The New York Court of Appeals removed Robert Putorti, a justice on the Whitehall Town and Village Court, after he brandished a loaded gun at a defendant in his courtroom … 3rd Circuit Judge Thomas Hardiman argued that the U.S. Supreme Court would have grounds to revisit its interpretation of the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment … A federal judicial rules-making panel agreed to examine whether to curtail “judge shopping” and appeared largely supportive of the latest draft of a rule requiring filers of amicus briefs to disclose when much of their revenue comes from a party in a case or its lawyers … Plus, the federal judiciary is walking away from a proposal to bar midnight court filings to improve work-life balance among attorneys.
Sam Bankman-Fried fraud trial
Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer Mark Cohen pushed back against former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh’s testimony that the crypto exchange’s endorsement deals “reeked of excess and flashiness” … Singh also said that Bankman-Fried directed that money from his Alameda Research hedge fund be used to make political donations after he learned the fund owed $13 billion to customers of FTX … Can Sun, FTX’s former general counsel, testified that Bankman-Fried asked him to come up with “legal justifications” for why it was missing $7 billion in customer funds four days before the company declared bankruptcy … Plus, the prosecution showed jurors a slew of profane messages Bankman-Fried sent journalists complaining about regulators.
Legal industry
Davis Polk rescinded job offers to three law students in leadership positions at Harvard and Columbia university groups who signed on to public statements supporting Palestine in the wake of Hamas’ deadly attacks in Israel, following a similar move by fellow law firm Winston & Strawn last week … New York University School of Law is investigating whether a former Student Bar Association president who blamed Israel for the Hamas attacks in an online newsletter violated the school’s policies against discrimination and harassment … The Illinois comptroller’s office fired one of its lawyers over virulently antisemitic remarks the attorney allegedly made in an exchange on the social media site Instagram.
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