Martin v. City of Port Huron

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a reviewing court may infer from the jury’s questions that it was confused about a controlling legal principle
• rejecting vagueness challenge by an attorney convicted under § 1346 for bribing state court judge
• noting that plaintiffs alleging a RICO conspiracy under § 1962(d) need not allege that each defendant agreed to participate personally in each predicate act, and instead need only allege that each RICO conspirators agreed on the overall objective of the conspiracy
• observing “it is clear that Congress reacted, at the Court’s invitation, to overrule McNally”
• ongoing scheme using mail fraud to influence judicial decisions in exchange for bribes [is more than garden variety fraud]
• reviewing district court’s ruling on motion for disqualification of counsel for abuse of discretion

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