United States First Circuit
US v. Urciuoli, 07-1297
Convictions and sentences for mail fraud and conspiracy as part of a scheme to bribe a state legislator are vacated and remanded where jury instructions were over-broad insofar as they allowed the jury to consider certain behavior of the legislator as a deprivation of honest services.
Appellate Information
- Decided 01/18/2008
- Published 01/18/2008
Judges
- BOUDIN, Chief Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge.
Court
- United States First Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Martin G. Weinberg with whom Kimberly Homan was on brief for appellant Robert A. Urciuoli., John A. MacFadyen with whom B. Jean Rosiello and MacFadyen, Gescheidt & O'Brien were on brief for appellant Frances P. Driscoll.
- For Appellees:
- Donald C. Lockhart, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Robert Clark Corrente, United States Attorney, Luis M. Matos, First Assistant United States Attorney, and Dulce Donovan, Chief, Civil Division, were on consolidated brief for appellee.