If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that we really like Scalia. We really do. We like the way he thinks, we like the way he writes, and we like that he’s not a phony. His law clerks may moan and groan that...
Voting 7-2, the Supreme Court today ruled that a defendant cannot appeal when the prosecution reneged on a plea bargain, unless the issue was preserved before the trial court. In his majority opinion for Puckett v. U.S., Justice Scalia cleared up a split among the circuits. There had been differing...
18 U.S.C. § 1346 expands the definition of mail & wire fraud to include “a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services.” That’s short and sweet, but what does it mean? The courts have been left to define the crime for themselves. Unfortunately, they...
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