US Fights Girardi Bid to Quash Conviction for Lack of Competency

Convicted mass torts attorney Thomas Girardi should be denied his bids to vacate his conviction due to a lack of mental competency, and be tried anew should he regain his faculties, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles said Tuesday.

The US District Court for the Central District of California already determined that Girardi was mentally competent to stand trial, and his defense counsel have provided no new evidence to make the court reconsider its rulings, the government said in an opposition memo.

Girardi, 85, was diagnosed with dementia and resided in a memory care facility ahead of the August trial that ...