August 25, 2020
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.
June 28, 2016
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.
September 23, 2013
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.
August 26, 2013
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.
August 22, 2013
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.
August 19, 2013
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."
August 15, 2013
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.
July 24, 2013
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.
June 14, 2013
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.
March 18, 2013
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.