It’s about time.
It’s about time. - No kidding.
Subsequently, she agreed to plead guilty to a charge the judge called "questionable," and testified against Ruehle in a way the judge said seemed "scripted." She awaits sentencing, although her case may be affected by Tuesday's events. The judge said the government also pressured former Broadcom general counsel David Dull to testify in a way that favored the prosecution. Carney saved some of his harshest criticism for Assistant U.S. Atty. Andrew Stolper, the lead prosecutor in the case, saying at one point, "The lead prosecutor somehow forgot that truth is never negotiable." .....
"I'm sure there are going to be many people who are going to be critical of my decision . . . and argue that I'm being too hard on the government," the judge said. "I strongly disagree. I have a solemn obligation to hold the government to the Constitution. I'm doing nothing more and nothing less." Tuesday's court action was the latest in a series of setbacks for federal cases alleging the misdating of stock options. McAfee Inc.'s former general counsel, Kent Roberts, was acquitted last year in one such case. In August, an appeals court threw out the conviction of Brocade Communications' former CEO, Gregory Reyes, ruling prosecutors made improper statements to the jury. In reviewing the case, the judge singled out the way the government handled two witnesses. He said Nancy Tullos, a former Broadcom vice president of human resources who refused to cooperate in the investigation, was fired from a new job after a prosecutor called her employer and disclosed allegations against her.
This shows how bad this case (and, likely, many similar ones) really was : Carney's decision to dismiss Nicholas' options case was unusual because it came during Ruehle's trial, with no motion by Nicholas pending and was accompanied by the decision to dismiss the SEC lawsuit. .....