HOUSTON, July 30 (UPI) -- U.S. District Judge Sim Lake has a second shot at sentencing former Enron chief Jeffrey Skilling after an appeals court tossed out a 24-year sentence.
A panel of three judges in New Orleans upheld Skilling's fraud conviction in January, but ruled Skilling's conduct did provoke the collapse of a financial institution, a factor that had been considered in his previous sentence.