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We knew it was coming.
Disgraced ex-state pol Dean Skelos wasted no time in begging a court to toss his corruption conviction on the heels of Sheldon Silver’s own stunning overturn.
In court papers filed Thursday, a lawyer for the former state Senate Majority Leader drew comparisons to his and Silver’s cases – saying both juries received “fatally overbroad” instructions about what constitutes an “official act.”
The former politicians’ trials also revolved around meetings that they both had with real-estate developer Glenwood Management, lawyer Alexandra Shapiro noted.
“Given the instructions, the court held that ‘the jury could have concluded easily, but mistakenly, that the meeting itself sufficed to show an official acts, and gone no further,’” Shapiro wrote in the two-page letter, citing Thursday’s decision to vacate the conviction of Silver, the former state Assembly leader. “The same is true here.”
http://nypost.com/2017/07/14/dean-skelos-is-already-trying-to-pull-a-sheldon-silver-defense/
Disgraced ex-state pol Dean Skelos wasted no time in begging a court to toss his corruption conviction on the heels of Sheldon Silver’s own stunning overturn.
In court papers filed Thursday, a lawyer for the former state Senate Majority Leader drew comparisons to his and Silver’s cases – saying both juries received “fatally overbroad” instructions about what constitutes an “official act.”
The former politicians’ trials also revolved around meetings that they both had with real-estate developer Glenwood Management, lawyer Alexandra Shapiro noted.
“Given the instructions, the court held that ‘the jury could have concluded easily, but mistakenly, that the meeting itself sufficed to show an official acts, and gone no further,’” Shapiro wrote in the two-page letter, citing Thursday’s decision to vacate the conviction of Silver, the former state Assembly leader. “The same is true here.”
http://nypost.com/2017/07/14/dean-skelos-is-already-trying-to-pull-a-sheldon-silver-defense/
