Miami Cops Ask Panel to Overturn Convictions for Helping Drug Dealers
Miami, Fla. (Image by MustangJoe from Pixabay via Courthouse News) ATLANTA (CN) — Attorneys for two former Miami cops convicted of drug trafficking charges after escorting cocaine suppliers in an FBI sting told an 11 th Circuit panel Thursday that their clients’ convictions should be overturned due to procedural errors at trial. “This case is about an entrapped rookie police officer threatened by his only contact,” attorney Ashley Litwin of Seitles & Litwin argued on behalf of James Archibald. After a June 2019 trial, Archibald was sentenced to 10 years in prison and his co-conspirato...
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