U.S. 'rushed to judgment' against SAC's Martoma, lawyer tells jury

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U.S. 'rushed to judgment' against SAC's Martoma, lawyer tells jury

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-39-rushed-judgment-39-against-sac-39-213134293--sector.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/zZKdc5VaD0.8DDNhaGrcVQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-01-10T213134Z_1_CBREA091NT800_RTROPTP_2_CBUSINESS-US-SAC-MARTOMA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Mathew Martoma leaves Manhattan Federal Court after facing charges on an insider trading scheme in New York" align="left" title="Mathew Martoma leaves Manhattan Federal Court after facing charges on an insider trading scheme in New York" border="0" /></a>By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosecutors &quot;rushed to judgment&quot; in charging former SAC Capital Advisors portfolio manager Mathew Martoma with insider trading, his lawyer told jurors on Friday. Richard Strassberg, Martoma's attorney, argued there were &quot;many, many independent reasons&quot; for the hedge fund to have made the trades at the heart of the case. &quot;The story just doesn't add up because in the haste to make a case, the prosecution rushed to judgment,&quot; Strassberg said. Arlo Devlin-Brown, an assistant U.S. attorney, acknowledged that Martoma did research before trading in the stocks and making investment recommendations to Steven A. Cohen, the founder of SAC Capital.</p><br clear="all"/>

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