STATE V. CHERI S. [White Collar Crime - Embezzlement]
N/AOUTCOME: Not Guilty
This time, it was a female insurance agent from a northern Mew Mexico city who was accused of stealing premium payments intended for her senior agent. She hired Mr. Samore to defend her and her good r ... eputation. Again, this defendant refused to accept a plea proposal that would have guaranteed her no jail time but cost her the insurance license that was her livelihood. The trial prospects looked bleak for the defense until some gaping holes in the prosecution were exposed on the last day of a week-long trial. It took this jury less than two hours to return with a verdict that so stunned the prosecutor she fled from the courtroom even before the trial judge discharged the jurors: "not guilty" on each felony count. With that result, Cheri S. also went home and back to her life as an insurance salesperson.
