The dramatic turnabout comes over questions of whether American prosecutors overreached by applying U.S. law to a group of people, many of them foreign nationals, who defrauded foreign organizations as they carried out bribery schemes across the world.
Their hopes are linked to the September cases, in which the two defendants benefited from two recent Supreme Court rulings that had rejected federal prosecutors' application of the law at play in the soccer cases and offered rare guidance on what is known as honest services fraud.
That blow to the case, which federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are contesting, could turn the story of world soccer's deep-seated corruption detailed in a 236-page indictment into one equally about the long arm of American justice reaching too far.
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