Jeffrey K. Skilling, Petitioner v. United States

Summary

The Court held that Skilling received a fair trial despite pretrial publicity and that the honest-services fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1346, covers only bribery and kickback schemes. Because Skilling's alleged misconduct did not involve bribes or kickbacks, his conviction on that count was improper, leading to affirmance in part, vacation in part, and remand for harmless-error analysis. Justice Sotomayor, dissenting in part, would have found the jury selection process insufficient to ensure impartiality.