Fen-Phen Lawyer Trial Delayed After Defendant is Hospitalized

When opening arguments began two weeks ago in the Fen-Phen lawyer case, we noted that the lawyer for Melbourne Mills Jr. — one of three lawyers on trial for bilking clients out of settlement funds — raised an intoxication defense. Mills’s lawyer, Jim Shuffett, told the jury that Mills, 77, was hospitalized for an “alcoholic [...]