Yup, pretty sure the DA gets to decide if a case is civil or criminal, and DAs all over the country are notoriously cowardly and pro-corporate. They probably considered the $250 million verdict (And the fact that they’d be indicting a CEO with a crack lawyer team) as justification for not pursuing a criminal case.
Yup, pretty sure the DA gets to decide if a case is civil or criminal, and DAs all over the country are notoriously cowardly and pro-corporate. They probably considered the $250 million verdict (And the fact that they’d be indicting a CEO with a crack lawyer team) as justification for not pursuing a criminal case.