Brooklyn Legislator Doesn’t Testify at His Bribery Trial
November 4, 2011,
By Benjamin Weiser,
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/nyregion/william-f-boyland-jr-doesnt-testify-at-bribery-trial.html
After the government rested, one of Mr. Boyland’s lawyers asked the judge, Jed S. Rakoff of Federal District Court, to acquit their client on grounds that the government had failed to prove the necessary quid pro quo.
“We believe that although they have established that money was paid and that official acts occurred,” the lawyer, Michael K. Bachrach, said, “we do not believe the evidence supports one was for the other.”