Andy Curliss at the News & Observer is reporting that attorneys for former N.C. lottery commissioner and current prison inmate Kevin Geddings are trying to get him out of prison in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on “honest services.”
“We are working on an emergency application,” Geddings lawyer Jonathan Edelstein of New York said in an interview. “We are not wasting any time.”
It is not clear if prosecutors will oppose the request. Case law favors releasing an inmate in this situation, Edelstein said.
Edelstein said he and the Geddings family are happy that the Supreme Court ruling matches what Geddings has argued for years — that the “honest services” law shouldn’t apply to conflicts of interest. Geddings had argued that the law needed to have a bribe or kickback involved for it to apply, which is precisely what the Court decided on Thursday.
