The Justice Department must have thought that Val Northcutt was nuts. The government had secured guilty pleas from nine co-defendants in its prosecution of price-fixing and bid rigging in the marine hose industry, and here was Northcutt insisting on a jury trial.
The prosecutors were “flabbergasted,” according to Michael Pasano, one of the Carlton Fields attorneys who represented Northcutt. “It was literally unheard of for someone to say no [to a plea bargain] and go to trial.”
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