Overlawyered: Chronicling The High Cost Of Our Legal System

“It would be a miscarriage of justice to permit this case to go to the jury”

The U.S. Department of Justice falls flat on its face in its unsuccessful prosecution of Lauren Stevens, an in-house lawyer and vice president at drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, on charges of lying to the government and obstructing justice during the company’s response to a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation of its marketing. [Main Justice]

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  • I have noticed that no one calls out the prosecutors by name. I feel like it would be at least a small deterent to bad behavior if sites like this with high google site-ranking called out prosecutorial misconduct like this by explicitly stating names.

  • the prosecutors may been been directed to pursue this case by their “superiors”.

    • By Mike

  • Sorry,

    “I vas only following oders” doesn’t fly in America.

  • Judge Titus’s ruling was wise, but I wonder if his wisdom came from knowing that “lying to the government” and “obstructing justice” charges best suited for tyranny, or simple empathy for the accused lawyer. The Martha Stewart prosecution and conviction shamed our USA.

  • […] posted briefly on the Lauren Stevens acquittal last month, and now I’ve got a longer treatment up at Cato at […]