No. 08-1394

Supreme Court of the United States

____________________ J

EFFREY

KILLING

Petitioner

,v.U

NITED

TATES OF

MERICA

Respondent

. ____________________

On Writ of Certiorari to the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

____________________

BRIEF FOR PETITIONER

____________________ D

ANIEL

ETROCELLI

(

Counsel of Record

)M.

ANDALL

PPENHEIMER

ATTHEW

LINE

AVID

ARROSO

O’M

ELVENY

YERS

LLP1999 Avenue of the Stars,7th FloorLos Angeles, California 90067(310) 553-6800W

ALTER

ELLINGER

ONATHAN

ACKER

RINIVASAN

RVING

ORNSTEIN

EAGHAN

AINE

O’M

ELVENY

YERS

LLP1625 Eye Street, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20006(202) 383-5300

Attorneys for Petitioner

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.

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.