Dickie Scruggs Loses Bid To Vacate Corruption Conviction

By Ciaran McEvoy (April 12, 2013, 6:30 PM EDT) -- The Fifth Circuit on Friday affirmed the conviction of once-prominent plaintiffs' lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, ruling that Scruggs could not waive an earlier guilty plea after the U.S. Supreme Court's Skilling v. United States decision narrowed the scope of what constitutes honest services fraud....

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