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Criminal Litigation
Criminal Litigation Articles
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When a federal grand jury was convened to investigate the possibility of filing federal murder charges against Houstonian Robert Angleton, the city braced itself for another media frenzy. In 1998, Robert Angleton had been acquitted in state court of murdering his wife, socialite Doris Angleton, who was found shot to death on April 16, 1997, in her River Oaks home. -
As mandated in Section 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the SEC adopted rules and amendments requiring each Securities and Exchange Commission reporting company to disclose whether it has at least one "audit committee financial expert" serving on its audit committee and, if so, the name of the expert and whether the expert is independent of management. -
I have been contacted by a police investigator. What do I do? As everyone knows from the media, whatever you te. -
This guide provides information about seizures and forfeitures by the U.S. Customs Service. -
We've all encountered what I refer to as the "Rambo" Litigator. John Rambo generally responded to provocation with overwhelming force. In the climax of the first movie, he shoots up a small town and then walks the barren streets as the fires of destruction light up the empty sky. -
Over the past year, clients have repeatedly posed questions about the disclosure controls and procedures they are now required to maintain as mandated by Sarbanes-Oxley. Based on the number and types of questions posed, an overview of disclosure controls and procedures is among the most useful tools an attorney can provide a client in that regard. -
It's now becoming clear which structured-finance legal practices are weathering the contraction of the home-equity and subprime-mortgage business - and which ones aren't. -
Introduction As is now well known, for years computer programmers inputted only the last two digits of the calenda. -
Death is never timely, only inevitable. For some afflicted souls, however, life can be so unbearable that they dream of a quick, effective, and merciful exit. Now, for certain competent, yet terminally ill individuals who find the emotional and physical cost of life too dear, their doctors may be able to furnish such a means to their end. This spring, in a span of less than one month, federal appeals courts in New York and California ruled that two state bans on assisted suicide were unconstitutional. -
This article originally appeared in the October 1999 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and is republished.