PhotoThe Justice Department said Thursday that it would abandon its case against Robert McDonnell, a former governor of Virginia, whose career was upended by a corruption conviction that the United States Supreme Court overturned in June. Federal prosecutors also said that they would end an associated case against Mr. McDonnell’s wife, Maureen. A judge later sentenced Mr. McDonnell to two years in prison, and Ms. McDonnell to a little more than a year. Corruption experts were divided Thursday about whether the Justice Department’s decisions reflected a new approach to corruption cases in the wake of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision. “When a new legal standard is articulated by the Supreme Court and there’s a need to potentially retry the case, prosecutors make a very particularized assessment as to whether, No.

Source: New York Times September 08, 2016 22:41 UTC