Good news (kind of) from my home state of Alabama: the U.S. Supreme Court has vacated the 11th Circuit decision in Siegelman's appeal and remanded it back to the 11th for reconsideration in light of the Supreme Court's recent interpretation of "honest services" fraud statutes in cases such as Skilling v. United States.
For those of you, like me, who are not Siegelman geeks, you may recall that he was Alabama's last Democratic governor, and his prosecution has been widely assumed to be politically motivated, with Karl Rove pulling the strings.
I haven't followed Siegelman's appeals closely, so I'll leave it to Raw Story to provide what few datails there are at this point. Also, here is a newly posted AP story.
As the RS article points out, the Supremes' remand will not get him out of the woods on every charge, because it doesn't cover his convictions for bribery, conspiracy and obstruction. The 11th Circuit previously upheld those convictions and refused his request for a new trial.