By: KIMBERLY ATKINS, BridgeTower Media Newswires//April 18, 2012//
By: KIMBERLY ATKINS, BridgeTower Media Newswires//April 18, 2012//
By Kimberly Atkins
Dolan Media Newswires
The U.S. Supreme Court took a pass on an appeal from former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling.
Skilling has asked the court to consider whether a lower court ruling rejecting his claim that errors in his earlier trial should have been grounds for throwing out the convictions and granting him a new trial, the AP reports.
Skilling was convicted in 2006 of conspiracy, insider trading and other charges in the wake of the collapse of the company. In 2010, one of those convictions, for “honest services” fraud, was struck down by a Supreme Court ruling that the charge applied only to cases alleging bribery and kickbacks.
Skilling argued that the inclusion of the flawed charge should have been grounds for a new trial. The 5th Circuit disagreed, and the Supreme Court declined to rule on the matter.