{"id":51,"date":"1996-09-01T20:29:24","date_gmt":"1996-09-02T01:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courtroom.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2020-08-04T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:04:24","slug":"criminal-law-and-civil-litigators-a-review-of-three-little-known-federal-statutes-and-parallel-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.courtroom.com\/blog\/criminal-law-and-civil-litigators-a-review-of-three-little-known-federal-statutes-and-parallel-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Law and Civil Litigators: A Review of Three Little Known Federal Statutes and Parallel Prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-550 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.courtroom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PZ_magnifyingglass-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Parallel Prosecution\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.courtroom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PZ_magnifyingglass-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.courtroom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PZ_magnifyingglass-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.courtroom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PZ_magnifyingglass-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.courtroom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PZ_magnifyingglass-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.courtroom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PZ_magnifyingglass.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>By Michael Pezzulli and Charles J. Fortunado<\/em><\/p>\n<p>State Bar of Texas: Advanced Creditors&#8217; Rights presentation &#8211; September, 1996<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the past ten years, the gulf between criminal practice and civil practice has narrowed considerably.<\/strong>There are several causes for this. One is the explosion of white collar criminal litigation. More pervasive use of forfeiture statutes in the pursuit of attorney\u2019s fees has also served to bring civil litigators under the purview of criminal law. The savings and loan and drug crises have also done their part to bring civil litigators\u2019 conduct under scrutiny of criminal statutes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtroom.com\/blog\/criminal-law-and-civil-litigators-a-review-of-three-little-known-federal-statutes-and-parallel-prosecution\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Criminal Law and Civil Litigators: A Review of Three Little Known Federal Statutes and Parallel Prosecution\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Pezzulli and Charles J. Fortunado State Bar of Texas: Advanced Creditors&#8217; Rights presentation &#8211; September, 1996 In the past ten years, the gulf between criminal practice and civil practice has narrowed considerably.There are several causes for this. One is the explosion of white collar criminal litigation. 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