We know it has to have a corrupt intent but it is a very gray area of the law.

The key question to be decided, he said, was whether there was a "corrupt intent."

But immunity generally does extend to all judicial decisions in which the judge has proper jurisdiction, even if a decision is made with "corrupt or malicious intent."

"If each of us believes that one Andersen agent acted knowingly and with corrupt intent, is it for all of us to believe that it was the same agent," the note read.

But the defense countered that the government had failed to provide any proof that anyone at Andersen had acted with corrupt intent to impede an inquiry.

You must prove corrupt intent.

The issues are simple: Were thousands of documents related to Enron's finances shredded last fall for the corrupt intent of impeding an official inquiry?

Brewster stood trial and was found " not guilty" of the bribery charges but was convicted of accepting an unlawful gratuity "without corrupt intent ".

In 1975, he pleaded no contest to a single misdemeanor charge of accepting an illegal gratuity " without corrupt intent" and was fined and allowed to keep his law license.

'Law Shall Set Us Free' "There is no corrupt intent in this case," Mr. Slotnick told the jury.