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Bail and sentencing issues take center stage in Dreier case

By Douglas A. Berman

This New York Law Journal article, headlined "Guilty Plea Expected, but Dreier Seeks to Stay Free a Little Longer," details how another high-profile white-collar prosecution is about to become a case about bail and sentencing.  Here are the details: Disgraced attorney Marc S. Dreier will journey this afternoon from midtown Manhattan to a downtown federal courthouse, where he is expected to plead guilty to peddling fictitious notes to investors. It is uncertain whether Dreier will be allowed to return to his penthouse apartment at 151 E. 58th St. before imposition of what will surely be a lengthy prison term.  But the principal job of defense lawyer Gerald Shargel will be to keep his client out of jail for as long as possible. Starting with the December arrest of the former head of now-defunct, 250-attorney Dreier LLP, Shargel waged an extended battle with Assistant U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).