The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected former Texas judge Angus McGinty’s attempt to overturn his federal bribery conviction, dismissing the argument that his own criminal defense attorneys had a conflict because they were allegedly suspects in the same corruption investigation that lead to McGinty’s conviction.

McGinty, who served as state district court judge in San Antonio from 2011 until his resignation from the bench in 2014, pleaded guilty to one count of honest services wire fraud in 2015 and was sentenced to two years in prison.