The appellate court overturned two of the honest services fraud charges against Scrushy and Siegelman, saying they did not meet the new scaled-back criteria for when honest services charges can be applied.
But the court upheld five charges against Siegelman and four counts against Scrushy.
"This is an extraordinary case. It involves allegations of corruption at the highest levels of Alabama state government. Its resolution has strained the resources of both Alabama and the federal government. But it has arrived in this court with the 'sword and buckler' of a jury verdict," the three-judge panel ruled.
"Though the popular culture sometimes asserts otherwise, the virtue of our jury system is that it most often gets it right," the judges wrote. The case goes back to the federal court in Montgomery to resentence the two men.
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