Not Guilty in Federal Court in the Country’s Largest Sex Trafficking Case

In a case that made front page headlines for years, Jim secured federal trial acquittals and hung verdicts on all of the sex trafficking charges in the Victory Inn sex trafficking trial in the Detroit Federal Court.   The trial was a two-month long battle between Jim and the US Attorney’s top trial group.  Jim’s client, the alleged ringleader of the Victory Inn, was wrongfully portrayed in the media for years as some sort of evil sex trafficking overlord who controlled the Victory Inn hotel through fear and violence.  Jim’s strategy was complex and involved the filing of many motions, a detailed investigation outside of the provided discovery, and even successfully suing Homeland Security for evidence of text messages and emails sent to national news media like Fox News, which contradicted the agents reports in the case.  Although the US Attorney’s Office was quick to make all sorts of statements and invited the media to the trial in the beginning, as Jim pulverized the witnesses it became clear that things were not going so well for the government.  At the end, the government seemed to forget to tell the papers when the verdict came back.  A fact brought up more than a few times by agencies like the Detroit News!