Petition of the day
on Nov 14, 2017 at 11:23 pm
Banner sketch for argument in Reed v. Town of Gilbert
The petition of the day is:
17-562
Issues: (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1957 requires the government to trace funds in a transaction involving a withdrawal from a commingled account, precluding a conviction where the account contains sufficient clean funds to cover the transfer; and (2) whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit contravened the Supreme Court’s decisions in Sekhar v. United States and Skilling v. United States by finding sufficient evidence to support Petitioner’s convictions for extortion and honest services fraud.
