tailieunhanh - jeff skilling s merits brief at scotus

Tham khảo sách 'jeff skilling s merits brief at scotus', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | No. 08-1394 In The Supreme Court of the United States Jeffrey K. Skilling Petitioner v. United States of America Respondent. On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit BRIEF FOR PETITIONER Daniel M. Petrocelli Counsel of Record M. Randall Oppenheimer Matthew T. Kline David J. Marroso O Melveny Myers LLP 1999 Avenue of the Stars 7 th Floor Los Angeles California 90067 310 553-6800 Walter Dellinger Jonathan D. hacker Sri Srinivasan Irving L. Gornstein Meaghan McLaine VerGow O Melveny Myers LLP 1625 Eye Street . Washington . 20006 202 383-5300 Attorneys for Petitioner i QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the federal honest services fraud statute 18 . 1346 requires the Government to prove that the defendant s conduct was intended to achieve private gain rather than to advance the employer s interests and if not whether 1346 is unconstitutionally vague. 2. When a presumption of jury prejudice arises because of the widespread community impact of the defendant s alleged conduct and massive inflammatory pretrial publicity whether the Government may rebut the presumption of prejudice and if so whether the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that no juror was actually prejudiced. ii PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDING Petitioner is Jeffrey K. Skilling defendantappellant below. Additional defendants in the district court who were not parties in the court of appeals and are not parties here were Kenneth L. Lay and Richard A. Causey. Respondent is the United States of America appellee .