Conlan v. Turn Verein of Brooklyn

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the crime is complete when the payment is corruptly given with intent to influence the judicial officer on any matter that may by law come before him in his official capacity, whether or not it ever does
• explaining that because it is a duty of an officer to arrest, an officer who is paid not to arrest someone is “bribed with respect to a matter which might be a subject of his official action”
• explaining that because it is a duty of an officer to arrest, an officer who is paid not to arrest someone is “bribed with respect to a matter which might be a subject of his official action”
• explaining that because it is a duty of an officer to arrest, an officer who is paid not to arrest someone is “bribed with respect to a matter which might be a subject of his official action”
• affirming conviction where violation of official duty was “the duty of a police officer to arrest, with or without warrant, according to circumstances, every person who violates” the law, without reference to the defendant police officer’s particular job functions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).