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An Employer’s Duty to Report Crimes by Employees: Company-Owned Daycare Center

by:  Hayes Hunt and Jonathan Cavalier Over the past decade, many European countries have passed laws mandating that individuals and employers report criminal conduct.  In the United States, however, individuals are typically not required to report criminal conduct that they

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Posted in Corporate Compliance

Preview of the Roger Clemens Trial: The Rocket Faces a Challenging Lineup

By Stephen A. Miller  (Orig. published 7/11/11)   In the 2000 World/Subway Series, Roger Clemens hurled a broken bat at Mike Piazza.  In hindsight, we can ask: Was it “roid rage”?  Clemens now finds himself on trial this  week in a

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Criminal Bullying: Army Soldier’s Suicide Leads To Homicide Prosecution.

By Hayes Hunt and Brian Kint The Army has charged eight soldiers in connection with the death of fellow soldier, Private Danny Chen.  Allegedly, these soldiers threw rocks at Private Chen, taunted him with ethnic slurs, and made him do

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Posted in Prosecution & Defense

Attorney-Client Interview: Innocence, Jail and Canines – Part 3

Originally published in The Champion, November, 2011 Do You Believe That I’m Innocent? On occasion, some clients desper­ately insist that their lawyer must believe they are innocent. A tempered response goes something like this: Your innocence is not the stan­dard.

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Attorney-Client Interview: Practice Points – Part 1 of 3

Originally published in The Champion, November, 2011 Basics of a Client Interview A lawyer can meet a client in many ways, including a referral by court appointment or in the waiting room of the lawyer’s office. For purposes of this

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Child Abuse Reporting Laws – Penn State Scandal

By: Hayes Hunt and Brian Kint An omission, or failure to act, is a crime only where the law imposes an affirmative duty to act.  Historically, the law has been reluctant to impose such duties.  Yet in some instances, the law does

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Double Jeopardy and Roger Clemens

Less than two months ago, U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton declared a mistrial in the Roger Clemens case after the prosecutors played an inadmissible video clip to the jury.  Judge Walton said the experienced prosecutors made a mistake that

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Innocent but Guilty: “West Memphis 3” Alford Plea

On Friday, 3 men pleaded guilty to first and second-degree murder of 3 children but, minutes later, told the judge they were innocent of the same crime. This unique and rare plea agreement, called an Alford plea, enables a defendant

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Prosecuting Corporate Officers: FDA & the Park Doctrine

  By Lauren A. Tulli   Recently, the FDA released guidelines titled the “Special Procedures and Considerations for Park Doctrine Prosecutions” to clarify the mechanism by which enforcement actions can be brought against corporate executives of FDA regulated companies.   Although the

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Search Warrant Protocol – What Every Company Should Do to Prepare

There are many ways by which the Government, federal or state, can appear at a company’s doorstep.  The most disruptive and unnerving is when government agents show up in the company’s lobby to serve and execute a search warrant.  Is

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Hayes Hunt concentrates his practice in the representation of individuals, corporations and executives in a wide variety of federal and state criminal law and regulatory enforcement matters as well as complex civil litigation. Hayes is a partner in the firm's Commercial Litigation Department as well as its Criminal Defense and Governmental Investigations Group.
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