First Amendment: Enron’s Skilling wins partial victory, loses on pre-trial publicity
While opening the door to a new trial for former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, in a 6-3 vote the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Skilling’s argument that pre-trial publicity made a free trial impossible. -db The New York Times June 24, 2010 By Adam Liptak WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ruling for two prominent corporate executives in prison for fraud, the Supreme Court on Thursday dramatically narrowed the scope of a law often used by federal prosecutors in