Southern District Judge Richard Sullivan in U.S. vs. Goffer, 10-cr-00056, turned aside the petition of former lawyer Michael Kimelman, who said he suffered from ineffective assistance of counsel on his appeal in the Galleon Group insider-trading scandal.
Kimelman argued that defense lawyer Michael Sommer of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati should have raised the same arguments on his appeal that later proved successful in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s decision in U.S. v. Newman.
via Ineffective Counsel Claims Fail to Upset Insider-Trading Conviction | New York Law Journal
