Court Opinion

ID: 9609314
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:25:33.859714+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:15:03.942298
License: Public Domain

ORME, Judge
(concurring):
As I read defendant Fletcher’s brief, he takes issue with the “Mini-Grand Jury Act,” the number of bribery counts properly submitted to the jury, and whether the RICE statute was constitutionally applied to him. I fully concur in the majority’s resolution of those issues.
Although Fletcher requests that his antitrust conviction be reversed, he does not directly assail that conviction as defendants in the companion case have done, but appears to base that request exclusively on his hoped-for success on the “Mini-Grand Jury” argument. That argument was unsuccessful and I see in his brief no alternative basis for his request that his antitrust conviction be reversed. It is for this procedural reason, and not because I see the antitrust issues any differently in this case, that I find it appropriate to affirm Fletcher’s convictions in toto even though I would reverse the antitrust convictions in the companion case.