Orange County Attorney Wayne Gross commented on KB Home CEO Bruce Karatz’s defense accusing federal prosecutors of manipulating witnesses in his upcoming option-backdating trial.

“What happened in Broadcom will cause defense lawyers to pursue these misconduct allegations because for the first time there’s a possibility such arguments will be heard and acted upon by judges,” said Wayne Gross, former chief of the U.S. attorney’s office in Santa Ana, who now practices white-collar defense with the Irvine office of law firm Greenberg Traurig.

“Defense lawyers often assumed that coercive tactics by prosecutors and agents, though repugnant, would be overlooked by judges if ever brought to their attention. So defense lawyers let it go,” Gross said.

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