Prosecutors fighting to preserve the convictions of four people in the Jenkens & Gilchrist tax shelter fraud scandal put the pressure on defense lawyers in federal court on Feb. 16.

For three and a half hours before Southern District of New York Judge William H. Pauley II, prosecutors tried to force Susan Brune and Laurie Edelstein of Brune & Richard to admit they skirted their ethical obligations when they failed to promptly tell the judge before deliberations began that they strongly suspected or knew a juror was guilty of misconduct.

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