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Justice Scalia Case: Skilling Vs United States

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The opinion concerning the case that was accessible were the U.S Supreme Court opinions concerning Skilling’s appeal. Justice Ginsburg delivered the first opinion. He considered two questions when asserting his opinion. Did pretrial publicity and community prejudice, the trial was held in Texas where most employees hailed from, prevent Skilling from a fair trial and did the jury improperly convict Skilling of conspiracy to commit honest-services fraud? Judge Ginsberg answered no to both questions and held to the existing convictions but chose to partial vacate the honest-services fraud due to bribery and kickbacks not falling into the honest-services statute (Skilling VS United States, 2010).
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