Federal Judge Susan Brnovich today recused herself from the trial of veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, the former owners of the classified ads giant, Backpage.com. Brnovich, the wife of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, gave no reason for…
Update Aug. 17, 2021: On the same day as Judge Brnovich’s order below, Bruce Feder, attorney for one of Lacey and Larkin’s co-defendants, Scott Spear, entered a “response and opposition to court order accelerating trial.” Feder explains on the record…
Update: On Dec. 8, 2021, four days after the hearing described below, a two-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, headed by Chief Judge Sidney Thomas, ordered federal prosecutors to respond to the defense’s request for a…
On Nov. 18, veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin took the extraordinary step of filing a petition for a writ of mandamus with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, asking it to intervene in their ongoing criminal case and…
It is difficult, for sheer outrage, to rival the French Revolutionary Tribunal where Georges Danton instructed the courthouse functionaries: “Let us be terrible, so that the people do not have to be.” His savage directive lives yet to this very…
