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USA v. BERGRIN et al

  1. August 25, 2020

    Ex-Atty's Murder Plot Retrial Bid Fails For Lack Of Evidence

    A former criminal defense attorney who is serving life in prison for using his practice as a racketeering enterprise while facilitating murder and drug trafficking has failed to present any new evidence that would likely lead to an acquittal if he were retried, a New Jersey federal judge ruled Tuesday.

  2. June 28, 2016

    NJ Atty Seeks Murder Plot Retrial, Says Gov't Witnesses Lied

    A former New Jersey criminal defense attorney told a New Jersey federal court Monday that government witnesses lied during his 2013 trial that resulted in a life sentence after he was found guilty of using his practice as a racketeering enterprise and facilitating murder, drug trafficking and other crimes, urging the court to grant him a retrial.

  3. September 23, 2013

    NJ Defense Atty Gets Life For Witness Murder Plot

    A former New Jersey criminal defense attorney convicted of using his law practice as a racketeering enterprise through which he plotted murder and facilitated drug trafficking and prostitution was sentenced Monday to life in prison.

  4. August 26, 2013

    NJ Atty Slams Court For Nixing Bid To Toss Murder Verdict

    Former criminal defense attorney Paul W. Bergrin on Monday lambasted a New Jersey federal court for declining to reverse his conviction for using his law practice to facilitate murder and traffic drugs, arguing that he was cheated a chance to respond to the government before his bid was rejected.

  5. August 22, 2013

    Latest New Trial Bid Denied In Witness Murder Case

    Former criminal defense attorney Paul W. Bergrin on Thursday lost his latest bid to reverse his conviction for using his law practice to facilitate murder and traffic drugs after a New Jersey federal judge said he won't reconsider a July ruling squashing Bergrin's requests.

  6. August 19, 2013

    Feds Stomp Atty's New Acquittal Bid In Witness Murder Case

    U.S. prosecutors on Friday slammed former criminal defense attorney Paul W. Bergrin's latest attempt to reverse his conviction for using his law practice to facilitate murder and traffic drugs, telling a New Jersey federal court that Bergrin's arguments are "untimely" and "meritless."

  7. August 15, 2013

    NJ Defense Atty Renews Bid To Nix Witness Murder Conviction

    Once-prominent criminal defense attorney Paul W. Bergrin says prosecutors ignored key evidence and used an unreliable witness to get him convicted of charges he used his law practice to facilitate murder and traffic drugs, according to a New Jersey federal court filing made available Wednesday.

  8. July 24, 2013

    NJ Defense Atty's New Trial Bid Nixed In Witness Murder Case

    A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday denied bids seeking acquittal and a new trial for once prominent criminal defense attorney Paul W. Bergrin, who was convicted in March of using his law practice to facilitate murder and traffic drugs.

  9. June 14, 2013

    Feds Slam Atty's New Trial Attempt In Witness Murder Case

    U.S. prosecutors told a New Jersey federal judge Wednesday that a criminal defense attorney who was convicted on charges that he used his law practice to facilitate murder and traffic drugs shouldn't receive a new trial because the evidence supporting his conviction is strong.

  10. March 18, 2013

    Prominent NJ Defense Atty Found Guilty Of Witness Murder

    A once prominent New Jersey criminal defense attorney faces the possibility of life in prison after a federal jury on Monday found him guilty on charges that he used his law practice to facilitate murder, tamper with witnesses, traffic drugs and aid prostitution.

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