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Regarding attorney Shelnutt's case, lawyers are legally permitted to accept fees derived from criminal activity, but that hasn't stopped similar prosecutions under vague money laundering formulations, such as that of Miami attorney Ben Kuehne last year (in which prosecutors eventually abandoned the remaining charges last November after a judge dismissed most of them).

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It was, Shelnutt's attorneys asserted, "a measure of the government's bad faith ... because it establishes the government's willingness to take 'facts' and twist them to fit their 'theory.'"

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Shelnutt's attorneys fired back in a reply filed Monday, calling Tamika Hill's testimony false.

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Shelnutt's lawyers also took issue with the IRS agent whose testimony was intended to bolster the money-laundering charges.

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Federal prosecutors also supported their decision to prosecute Shelnutt by citing a local television report that quoted a juror in the Shelnutt trial as saying Shelnutt's acquittal did not mean she thought Shelnutt was innocent.

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Last October, just two weeks before Shelnutt's trial opened, the

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Federal prosecutors also argued in their brief that 14 grand jury witnesses, including a secretary at Shelnutt's firm and an Internal Revenue Service agent, had bolstered their case against Shelnutt.

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The transcript of the poorly recorded meeting on which prosecutors relied misrepresented one of Shelnutt's statements so that it appeared he was referring to a list of drug dealers who owed Hill money when he was actually talking about something else entirely, according to Shelnutt's lawyers.

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The federal brief alluded to a grand jury witness, "J.N.," who did not testify at Shelnutt's trial but had contacted the FBI "and provided evidence which underlies part of the money laundering conspiracy ...."

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The case against Shelnutt stemmed from his longtime representation of Columbus drug kingpin Torrance "Bookie" Hill and Shelnutt's acceptance of legal fees that prosecutors claimed were derived from illegal drug sales by Hill or his network.

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