The following contains the analysis and opinions of the author. The author does not speak for the Backpage defendants. On Thursday, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted journalist Michael Lacey’s release from prison pending the outcome of his…
UPDATE 11/21/24, NOON: The Appellate court today issued a ruling denying the motion in regards to Scott Spear and Jed Brunst, but granting it in regards to Lacey and remanding Lacey’s case back to federal Judge Diane Humetewa in Phoenix…
The following contains the analysis and opinions of the author and no one else. The author does not speak for the Backpage defendants. In motions filed earlier this month at the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Backpage 3…
Note: This analysis is that of the author and no one else. Not content with the suicide last year of his longtime business partner and co-defendant Jim Larkin, prosecutors seek to consign famed journalist and editor Michael Lacey and his…
In a brief status conference on Monday morning in federal court in Phoenix, U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa scheduled August 6 as the start date for the retrial of journalist Michael Lacey on 84 hung counts from last year’s…
On Friday, at the final pretrial hearing in the Backpage case, federal Judge Diane Humetewa in Phoenix shot down a defense suggestion that the prosecution not use the terms “sex trafficking” and “child sex trafficking” during the Aug. 29 trial…
On Thursday in Phoenix, U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa denied a defense motion asking her to dismiss the five-year-old criminal case against veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin. The ruling clears the path for an August 8 retrial…
On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa in Phoenix scheduled a status conference in the Lacey/Larkin case for November 2 at 10 a.m., when attorneys for both sides will discuss dates for a new trial to take place sometime…
On Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied an attempt by veteran newspapermen and former Backpage owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin to reverse a lower court’s decision not to dismiss the…
The rare moments of levity during the half-hour session at the Ninth Circuit on Sept. 2 in the Lacey/Larkin appeal came at the government’s expense as litigators jousted before a three-judge panel at the James R. Browning United States Courthouse…
