A federal judge on Tuesday acquitted Lauren Stevens, the indicted former in-house lawyer for GlaxoSmithKline, of six criminal charges that she obstructed a federal investigation and made false statements to investigators.
“I believe that it would be a miscarriage of justice to permit this case to go to the jury,” U.S. District Court Judge Roger Titus of Maryland wrote in his ruling. “I conclude that the defendant in this case should never have been prosecuted, and she should be permitted to resume her career.”
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