Convicted in Client Money-Launder Case, Lawyer Faces New Trial After Fed'l Judge Nixes Jury Verdict
The roller-coaster ride continues for a California attorney charged with helping a law firm client launder money.
Following a federal jury conviction in July (jurors deadlocked on a conspiracy charge), Jamie Harley, previously known as Jamie Harmon, saw the verdict in the San Jose case set aside by Chief U.S. District Court Judge James Ware, due to his own faulty jury instructions, reports the San Jose Mercury News.
But now the feds have announced that they plan to retry her all on six counts, if they don’t win a possible appeal of Ware’s reversal of the verdict. Harley, who is in her mid-fifties, is reportedly seeking new legal counsel for the retrial.
She is accused of helping a client legitimize some $127,000 in profits from an illicit trade in stolen computers, as detailed in an earlier ABAJournal.com post:
Lawyer Says She Didn’t Know Client Funds Were Tainted; Prosecutors, Client Say She Did
