Sheena Reel v. Joshua Steven Reel

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• vacating tax fraud conviction where jury had convicted defendant of bribery under legally invalid theory and was instructed that bribes were not deductible
• “[T]he government need not trace the federal funds received by an organization to the project in connection with which its employee received a bribe.”
• “When ... one element of the offense is implicit in the statute, rather than explicit, and the indictment tracks the language of the statute and fails to allege the implicit element explicitly, the indictment fails to allege an offense.”
• “When . . . the jury has been presented with several bases for conviction, one of which is invalid as a matter of law, and it is impossible to tell which ground the jury selected, the conviction must be vacated.”
• “When . . . the jury has been presented with several bases for conviction, one of which is invalid as a matter of law, and it is impossible to tell which ground the jury selected, the conviction must be vacated.” (citing Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298, 312 (1957

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