A federal money-laundering case against a Columbus criminal defense lawyer is raising a host of legal ethics questions for both sides of the bar.
A pretrial hearing last week explored how far federal prosecutors and agents in middle Georgia were willing to go to secure the 40-count indictment of Columbus attorney J. Mark Shelnutt. During two days of testimony, a federal prosecutor acknowledged that he had lied to Shelnutt, and federal agents testified that they enlisted at least one criminal defense attorney as an undercover informant in order to elicit evidence that might be used to prosecute Shelnutt.
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