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Criminal Defense Brethren: The 11th Circuit Says "No" On The Ben Kuehne Case

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

If he hasn't already, my good friend David O. Markus will certainly blog the result in the Ben Kuehne case handed down today in the 11th Circuit. An opinion from a case of first impression in the 11th circuit on the issue of the exemption of section 1957 (f)(1) for criminal defense fees.If you are a criminal defense lawyer and do not know about this case, well, you're not really a criminal defense lawyer. Maybe you just play one on the internet.The court found the "plain meaning of the exemption set forth in §1957(f)(1), when considered in its context, is that transactions involving criminally derived proceeds are exempt from the prohibitions of § 1957(a) when they are for the purpose of securing legal representation to which an accused is entitled under the Sixth Amendment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on October 26, 2009 (boomark / email).