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McDonnell v. United States , 579 U.S. 550 (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case concerning the appeal of former Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell's conviction for honest services fraud and Hobbs Act extortion.
They were convicted on most counts by a federal jury on September 4, 2014. McDonnell, the first Virginia governor to be indicted or convicted of a felony, was sentenced on January 6, 2015, to two years in prison, followed by two years of supervised release. However, he was free on bond during the subsequent appeals process. [11]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out Republican former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell's corruption convictions.
Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988. [1] The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.
The Unit faced a deadlocked jury in the case against former Democratic North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, and the Supreme Court also overturned the conviction of Republican Virginia Gov. Bob ...
As in the McDonnell case, Smith was going for conviction at all costs, despite a high likelihood of the case eventually being overturned. Then the public effectively put an end to both cases by ...
McDonnell, Renzi, Sterling, [19] and Silver were found guilty, [20] though the Supreme Court later unanimously overturned McDonnell's conviction. [22] Edwards' case ended in a mistrial. [21] In 2015, Smith became an assistant U.S. attorney in the Middle District of Tennessee, at Nashville.
The justices also overturned the bribery conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell in 2016, and the court sharply curbed prosecutors’ use of an anti-fraud law in the case of ex-Enron CEO ...