US Supreme Court overturns ex-Twitter employee's obstruction conviction in Saudi spy case

“By Nate Raymond June 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court overturned on Thursday an obstruction conviction of a former Twitter employee accused of spying for Saudi Arabia, saying he was tried in the wrong state for knowingly falsifying a document to impede an FBI investigation. The justices unanimously ruled that the U.S. Justice Department wrongly in 2022 secured Ahmad Abouammo's conviction in California from a jury in San Francisco, when his only interactions with FBI agents had been at his home in Seattle in Washington state.

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