Legal Opinion
United States v. Botti
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 28, 2013No. Docket 10-3891-crPublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN G. KOELTL, District Judge:
Defendant James Botti was convicted of honest services mail fraud after a jury trial in the District of Connecticut (Charles S. Haight, Jr., Judge). See 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1346. In this appeal from the judgment entered on September 20, 2010, Botti argues that the District Court committed reversible error when it used a jury instruction on honest services mail fraud that allowed the jury to find Botti guilty of that crime without finding a bribery or kickback scheme, in contravention of the Supreme Court’s decision in Skilling v. United States, — U.S. -, 130…
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