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No. 08-____ 
I
N
T
HE
 
Supreme Court of the United States
 ____________________ J
EFFREY 
K.
 
S
KILLING
,
 Petitioner
,v.U
NITED
S
TATES OF
 A 
MERICA 
,
Respondent
. ____________________ 
On Petition for a Writ of Certiorarito the United States Court of Appealsfor the Fifth Circuit
 ____________________ 
PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI
 ____________________ D
 ANIEL
M.
 
P
ETROCELLI
 (
Counsel of Record
)M.
 
R
 ANDALL
O
PPENHEIMER
 M
 ATTHEW
T.
 
K 
LINE
 D
 AVID
J.
 
M
 ARROSO
 O’M
ELVENY 
&
 
M
 YERS
LLP1999 Avenue of the Stars,7th FloorLos Angeles, California 90067(310) 553-6800W
 ALTER
D
ELLINGER
 J
ONATHAN
D.
 
H
 ACKER
 I
RVING
L.
 
G
ORNSTEIN
 M
EAGHAN
M
C
L
 AINE
 R
 YAN
W.
 
S
COTT
 O’M
ELVENY 
&
 
M
 YERS
LLP1625 Eye Street, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20006(202) 383-5300
 Attorneys for Petitioner
 
 
i
QUESTIONS PRESENTED
1. Whether the federal “honest services” fraudstatute, 18 U.S.C. § 1346, requires the governmentto prove that the defendant’s conduct was intendedto achieve “private gain” rather than to advance theemployer’s interests, and, if not, whether § 1346 isunconstitutionally vague.2. When a presumption of jury prejudice arisesbecause of the widespread community impact of thedefendant’s alleged conduct and massive, inflamma-tory pretrial publicity, whether the government mayrebut the presumption of prejudice, and, if so,whether the government must prove beyond a rea-sonable doubt that no juror was actually prejudiced.
 
 
ii
PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDING
Petitioner is Jeffrey K. Skilling, defendant-appellant below. Additional defendants in the dis-trict court, who were not parties in the court of ap-peals and are not parties here, were Kenneth L. Layand Richard A. Causey.Respondent is the United States of America, ap-pellee below.
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