Legal Opinion
United States v. Slay
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 6, 1988No. Nos. 87-2566 to 87-2568 and 88-1040PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Eugene Slay, Leroy Tyus, and James Cullen were convicted in June 1987 of violating the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1343, in connection with their roles in seeking the award of a cable television franchise from the City of St. Louis. The jury had been instructed that a scheme to deprive the citizens of St. Louis of their intangible right to good government could constitute “a scheme or artifice to defraud” within the meaning of the mail and wire fraud statutes. Three weeks after the jury returned its verdict, the Supreme Court of the United…
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