Lawyers for Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli today officially sought to have the harsh college bribery scheme case against their clients dismissed
“The extraordinary government misconduct presented in this case threatens grave harm to defendants and the integrity of this proceeding,” the Full House star’s Latham & Watkins attorneys proclaimed amidst accusations that the feds pressured scam charity boss William Singer to implicate the duo and their not quite above board efforts to get their daughters into top tier schools. “That misconduct cannot be ignored,” the defense team added in their filing in federal court on Wednesday.
Upon receiving boxes of long sought further evidence from the feds earlier this year, Loughlin and Giannulli’s team railed against the government and their case in a February 27 hearing in Boston. In what is the first of two trials for the indicted parents, U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton told the assembled lawyers that the matter “will be completed well before Thanksgiving.” Jury selection is scheduled to begin on September 28.
However, with the same trial date today being set for other parents who also tried to get their kids into USC, this morning’s hearing revolved considerably around potentially explosive claims by the one-time Hallmark Channel staple and Giannulli’s Latham & Watkins attorneys that prosecutors suppressed evidence that could be “exonerating.
Judge Gorton on Thursday in court said that the defense’s claims of what is essentially “prosecutorial misconduct” weren’t enough to delay setting a trial start date for Loughlin and Giannulli, but did warrant further discussion. Gorton instructed the joint defense lawyers for the couple to file a motion by March 14 seeking to either toss or sanction the U.S. Attorney’s office. The feds have until March 27 to respond. A status hearing will be held on July 28.
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