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Lori Loughlin’s attorneys argued Wednesday that charges in the college admissions scandal should be dismissed, saying Massachusetts is the wrong venue for case, USA Today reports.
What happened:
- Defense attorneys filed a new motion to dismiss the charges, arguing that the case has nothing to do with Massachusetts.
- The alleged scheme included parents from outside Massachusetts. The mastermind, William “Rick” Singer is from outside Massachusetts. The scam included colleges outside of Massachusetts. according to USA Today.
- The defense argues the crimes have “no connection to Massachusetts.”
- The motion read: “Moving defendants’ constitutional rights to have the charges against them tried where their crimes were allegedly committed cannot be brushed aside to accommodate the government’s venue preferences.”
The defense called to dismiss the case before
- Last week, Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli called for the bribery case to end and all the charges to be dismissed, according to The Associated Press.
- Loughlin, Giannulli and other parents saying the federal government showed “extraordinary” misconduct in the case, as I wrote for the Deseret News.
- Defense teams who represented Loughlin and the parents argued the case “cannot stand because investigators bullied their informant into lying and then concealed evidence that would bolster the parents’ claims of innocence,” according to The Associated Press.
- The lawyer wrote in the filing last week: “The extraordinary government misconduct presented in this case threatens grave harm to defendants and the integrity of this proceeding. That misconduct cannot be ignored.”