Former state Senate leader John Sampson Tuesday became the latest politician to ask for a review of his corruption conviction based on the Supreme Court's decision last week
narrowing federal bribery and «honest services fraud» statutes in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
Former state Senate leader John Sampson became the latest politician to ask for a review of his corruption conviction based on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week
narrowing federal bribery and «honest services fraud» statutes in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
Not exact matches
The Menendez case was the first major
federal bribery trial since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 threw out the conviction of Republican former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and
narrowed the definition of
bribery.
That ruling, reached six months after the Skeloses were convicted, significantly
narrowed the definition of an «official act» as it applies to
federal bribery statutes and found that, while the McDonnell case was «distasteful,» it did not rise to the level of public corruption.
A
federal appeals court vacated the conviction last year, however, because jury instructions didn't reflect a later U.S. Supreme Court decision
narrowing the meaning of official acts that can support a
federal bribery conviction.