{"id":122996,"date":"2025-06-13T13:23:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T21:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/13\/tears-in-the-courtroom-winston-strawn-wins-after-6-years-of-litigation-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T21:23:43","slug":"tears-in-the-courtroom-winston-strawn-wins-after-6-years-of-litigation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/13\/tears-in-the-courtroom-winston-strawn-wins-after-6-years-of-litigation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Tears in the Courtroom:’ Winston & Strawn Wins After 6 Years of Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Developer Ruel Hamilton was indicted in 2019 on bribery charges of two Dallas Council members. In 2021, he had his first trial and was found guilty. But the Fifth Circuit allowed Hamilton to remain free pending appeal. The appeal succeeded and a new trial began on June 2, and on Thursday, a jury found Hamilton not guilty in his second trial.<\/p>\n

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Dallas Developer Ruel Hamilton was indicted in 2019 on bribery charges of two Dallas Council members. In 2021, he had his first trial and was found guilty. But the Fifth Circuit allowed Hamilton to remain free pending appeal. The appeal succeeded and a new trial began on June 2, and on Thursday, a jury found Hamilton not guilty in his second trial.<\/p>\n

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Dallas Developer Ruel Hamilton was indicted in 2019 on bribery charges of two Dallas Council members. In 2021, he had his first trial and was found guilty. But the Fifth Circuit allowed Hamilton to remain free pending appeal. The appeal succeeded and a new trial began on June 2, and on Thursday, a jury found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/legal-news-ASQ1nm.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}