A lawyer for Dewey & LeBoeuf’s former No. 2 executive told jurors on Wednesday that New York prosecutors had failed to provide any evidence of his client’s involvement in alleged crimes, and made an emotional appeal to jurors to exonerate him.

Bryan Cave’s Austin Campriello said that his client, former Dewey & LeBoeuf executive director Stephen DiCarmine, has already irretrievably lost his reputation since the Dewey criminal trial began in May. “What you can give him back, based on the evidence and lack of evidence,” Campriello told jurors, is “his life, by finding him not guilty of each and every crime in this indictment.”