The issue focused on whether a lawyer under scrutiny by investigators would be subject to criminal prosecution if his client's actions were lawful. In a case that has embroiled lawyers for judges and prosecutors for decades, judges heard evidence over three days in 2011 that the attorneys had helped their clients get lawyers who were legally permitted to work with child sex offenders and had been helping them travel to the United States to commit crimes. The judge overseeing the case called it a "flagrant breach" of judicial ethics to allow it to go on for