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Former NC lottery commissioner first(?) to get released based on Skilling honest service ruling

By Douglas A. Berman

A helpful reader sent me an order entered yesterday in Geddings v. US (available for download below), in which a district court has ordered the release of a former North Carolina lottery commissioner based on the new narrowed interpretation of the federal honest services fraud statue set forth in last weeks Skilling decision. Here is a key snippet from the order: On June 24, 2010, the court orderedthe United States to submita memorandum of law not later than June 29, 2010, addressing whether this court should grant post-conviction relief to Geddings.  On June 29, 2010, the United States submitted a memorandum acknowledging that under Skilling: it is no longer a federal crime for state public officials to corrupt their public offices by engaging in undisclosed self-dealing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).