Legal Opinion
Jerome Dewald v. Gene Wriggelsworth
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 7, 2014No. 12-2076PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGilman, J.
COLE, J. (pp. 303-10), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
The district court granted habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 to Jerome West-field Dewald with regard to his state convictions for common-law fraud and larceny by conversion, which arose from Dewald’s diversion of presidential campaign contributions into a bank account that he controlled. In doing so, the court concluded that the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), 2 U.S.C. §§ 431 et seq., preempted the state-law basis for those convictions, and that the Michigan Court of Appeals’…
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