Trial Judge Uses Fill-In Counsel To Prevent Trial Stoppage

2011-05-17T22:02:05-05:00May 17th, 2011|Tags: , , , |

I ran across a rather strange case in the Seventh Circuit involving several defendants on trial for various tax, mail and wire fraud counts. This was far from a routine tax case. To say the case was complex is kind of an understatement—there were over 1 million documents related to the trial. During the middle [...]