United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendants' bribery and mail fraud convictions are affirmed in part, where the jury was properly instructed that a quid pro quo was required to convict Defendants, but reversed in part, where there was insufficient evidence that one Defendant agreed to the alleged mail fraud scheme.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/06/2009
• Published 03/06/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT and HILL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David A. Sifre, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Arthur W. Leach, Atlanta, GA, Vincent F. Kilborn, III, Mobile, AL, Hiram Chester Eastland, Jr., Eastland Law Offices, PLLC, Greenwood, MS, G. Robert Blakey, Notre Dame, IN, David Allen McDonald, Kilborn, Roebuck & McDonald, Mobile, AL, James K. Jenkins, Maloy & Jenkins, Atlanta, GA, Leslie V. Moore, Moore & Associates, Birmingham, AL, Bruce Rogow, Cynthia E. Gunther, Bruce S. Rogow, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL, Sam Heldman, Gardner Firm, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants., John Alex Romano, U.S. DOJ, Crim. Div., Washington, DC, Louis V. Franklin, Sr., James B. Perrine, Stephen P. Feaga, Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.