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The Supreme Court Continues Its Recent Trend Of Rejecting DOJ's Broad Reading Of Federal Criminal Law In Thompson V. United States
On March 21, 2025, the Supreme Court continued its push back on an expansive reading of the federal criminal laws involving fraud and corruption by overturning the false statement conviction of Patrick Daley Thompson. In a unanimous ruling delivered by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court held that the federal statute of conviction, 18 U.S.C. § 1014, which makes it a crime to, inter alia, make a false statement to certain federal agencies does not criminalize misleading statements that are not false
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