In vacating the bribery conviction of a prominent Dallas commercial real estate developer, the federal appeals court for Texas aligned itself with a sister court on a question of how to interpret a federal bribery statute.

The case of United States v. Hamilton was a first for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, but the key issue is one with which other circuit courts have long grappled.

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