Civil Litigation
Jul. 1, 2024
Judge greenlights neurologist testimony in Girardi trial
Tom Girardi's defense counsel intends to argue that the disbarred attorney did not form a culpable state of mind sufficient to establish the elements of the fraud he is alleged to have committed against clients.
A neurology expert who was unable to convince a Los Angeles federal court last year that disbarred attorney Tom Girardi was mentally incompetent will be allowed to speak to jurors about his mental state in his upcoming $15 million wire fraud trial, U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton ordered.
Despite pushback from government prosecutors that jurors in the trial would be misled by Dr. Helena Chui - a USC Keck School of Medicine chair and neurology professor - because she would ...
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