Opinion ID: 739316
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Heading: Evidence Supporting the Honest Services Theory

Text: 47 Among numerous evidentiary challenges, appellants claim that the facts adduced at trial were insufficient to support conviction on the honest services theory. Because the jury may have relied on that theory, appellants urge reversal of their convictions. 48 There is no need for this court to decide whether the evidence adequately supports the prosecution's honest services theory. The case was submitted to the jury on two alternative, legally valid theories. If either theory was supported by sufficient evidence, we are bound to affirm. Griffin, 502 U.S. at 56-60, 112 S.Ct. at 472-74, cited in United States v. Fisher, 22 F.3d 574, 576 (5th Cir.1994). As we discuss in the next section, the evidence was sufficient to support appellants' convictions on the theory that they schemed to obtain money or property through false means.