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Jamal Lewis' Lawyers Seek Prosecution Evidence
May 13, 2004
ATLANTA (AP) -- Lawyers for Baltimore Ravens running back Jamal Lewis were in court Thursday to try and get ahold of information that may be used against him in a drug conspiracy case.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda Walker allowed the attorneys to meet with the government and try to work out their differences. No ruling was made, and both sides will reconvene May 26. Lewis' attorneys are seeking 20 items, including transcripts of recorded phone convers
tions with Lewis, surveillance reports, the names of alleged co-conspirators and other information.
It's unclear how many of those requests are contested. "A lot of what we're asking fo
r -
and I'm sure the government will agree -- we're going to get eventually," said
Don Samuel, a lawyer for Lewis.
Lewis, 24, is accused of helping broker a cocaine deal for a childhood friend, Angelo Jackson, during conversations with an informant in 2000. Both Lewis and Jackson have pleaded not guilty. No trial date has been set.
Walker rejected a motion by Jackson's lawyers to have a charge dismissed on grounds he had been denied a speedy trial. Jackson had been indicted on the same charge, attempt to buy cocaine, in 2000, but federal proecutors dismissed the case just before it was to go to trial in March 2001.
The prosecutors said that trying Jackson at the time would have disclosed an investigation of four other men later indicted and convicted on drug char
ges.
Jamal Lewis' Lawyers Seek Prosecution Evidence
May 13, 2004
ATLANTA (AP) -- Lawyers for Baltimore Ravens running back Jamal Lewis were in court Thursday to try and get ahold of information that may be used against him in a drug conspiracy case.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda Walker allowed the attorneys to meet with the government and try to work out their differences. No ruling was made, and both sides will reconvene May 26. Lewis' attorneys are seeking 20 items, including transcripts of recorded phone convers
tions with Lewis, surveillance reports, the names of alleged co-conspirators and other information.
It's unclear how many of those requests are contested. "A lot of what we're asking fo
r -
and I'm sure the government will agree -- we're going to get eventually," said
Don Samuel, a lawyer for Lewis.
Lewis, 24, is accused of helping broker a cocaine deal for a childhood friend, Angelo Jackson, during conversations with an informant in 2000. Both Lewis and Jackson have pleaded not guilty. No trial date has been set.
Walker rejected a motion by Jackson's lawyers to have a charge dismissed on grounds he had been denied a speedy trial. Jackson had been indicted on the same charge, attempt to buy cocaine, in 2000, but federal proecutors dismissed the case just before it was to go to trial in March 2001.
The prosecutors said that trying Jackson at the time would have disclosed an investigation of four other men later indicted and convicted on drug char
ges.
