Legal Opinion
Skilling v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 24, 2010No. 08-1394PublishedCited by 860 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
In 2001, Enron Corporation, then the seventh highest-revenue-grossing company in America, crashed into bankruptcy. We consider in this opinion two questions arising from the prosecution of Jeffrey Skilling, a longtime Enron executive, for crimes committed before the corporation’s collapse. First, did pretrial publicity and community prejudice prevent Skilling from obtaining a fair trial? Second, did the jury improperly convict Skilling of conspiracy to commit “honest-services” wire fraud, 18 U. S. C. §§371, 1343, 1346?
Answering no to both questions, the Fifth Circuit affirmed Skilling’s…
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