Jury finds prominent lawyer/politician not guilty in federal environmental trial.
The federal government charged well-known trial lawyer and chair of the Florida Department of Education with illegally dredging a channel from his home in the Keys to the ocean.
The federal government thought it could win this trial because it alleged it was a strict liability offense.
However, the defense team exposed a flaw in this argument, showing that because it was charged as an aiding and abetting offense, it was a specific intent crime.
The jury found Mr. Grady not guilty in a few hours of deliberations.
Pictured: Todd Yoder, Margot Moss, David Oscar Markus, and client Tom Grady-celebrate the not guilty verdict.
