On August 11, 2010, the Fourth Circuit affirmed the convictions and death sentence of Kenneth Lighty. While the Court generally found that the "actions of the Assistant United States Attorneys handling [the trial] unnecessarily introduced error into it, such error is not reversible." The errors – albeit harmless – which the Court found included: (1) erroneous admission of unrelated murder in the guilt-or-innocence phase of the trial; (2) the prosecution argument that the victim's family wanted the death penalty. Click here for the full opinion.