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House of Raeford shot down — again — in water pollution case
Story Date: 1/30/2013
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Source: Lisa M. Keefe, MEATINGPLACE, 1/30/13
House of Raeford was denied several motions that the company had filed in the wake of its guilty verdict last year in a water pollution case.
In a 41-page opinion, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina declined to grant House of Raeford’s motion to arrest judgment in the 2012 case, its motion for a new trial, and the company’s motion for an acquittal.
Judge James A. Beaty refused to arrest judgment because, he said, House of Raeford was incorrect when it claimed that the federal courts did not have jurisdiction in the case. He denied the motion for a new trial because he disagreed with the company’s contention that the original instructions to the jury were inaccurate. And he denied the motion for acquittal, saying that the evidence in the government’s case was sufficient to support the jury’s original guilty verdict.
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