article_snippet.sent: By surrendering his law licence, Michael Maggio Michael Maggio has avoided a disciplinary hearing over a bribery conviction in a separate case, for which Michael Maggio faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when Michael Maggio is sentenced in July.
article_snippet.sent: Two months after he pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges Maggio filed a request with the Arkansas Supreme Court in March to voluntarily surrender he law licence in order to 'avoid the expense, stress and publicity of further addressing he [bribery] conviction', according to court notes.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors in Maggio's bribery case said Prosecutors in Maggio's bribery case accepted campaign donations from nursing home owner Michael Morton and a lobbyist in exchange for reducing a jury award in a negligence case.
article_snippet.sent: In Maggio's bribery case, Maggio reduced the jury award from $5.2 million to $1 million in a lawsuit stemming from the death of a nursing home patient.
article_snippet.sent: Campaign finance records showed Morton's political action committees contributed money to Maggio's campaign for the Arkansas Court of Appeals.
article_snippet.sent: The family of the woman who died, Martha Bull, filed a lawsuit late last year against Maggio, nursing home owner Michael Morton and lobbyist Gilbert Baker protesting the reduction of the jury award.
article_snippet.sent: A circuit court judge dismissed Maggio from Maggio's bribery case last month, but not the other two defendants, saying Maggio had judicial immunity because Maggio was acting in Maggio official capacity as a judge.