In an unusual 2-1 decision, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had upheld Martoma’s conviction and nine-year prison term in August 2017, withdrew its finding at that time that the jury instructions were “not obviously erroneous.”
It said the instructions wrongly allowed a conviction solely on evidence that a Michigan doctor had tipped Martoma about a Alzheimer’s drug trial to maintain a friendship, rather than to offer a benefit or further a “quid pro quo” relationship.
via Conviction of SAC’s Martoma upheld despite jury instructions | Reuters.
