It seems like a silly question, with an obvious answer, but let me start at the beginning…There has been a great deal of fuss in the blogosphere and the media about Ken Lay’s convictions being overturned because he died while......

A federal judge has vacated the conviction of Enron founder Kenneth Lay, who died in July, wiping ou...

Not true. Yes they do concentrate on the process and often a truly guilty party will get off on a technicality but sometimes an innocent person can show that they were wrongly convicted. The whole reason for the appeals process is to counter-balance against kangaroo or jury-rig courts.

It is not for the purpose of a retrial of the person but to determine if he was fairly tried in the first place.

...small comfort Enron’s victims might have gotten from his conviction.

Would that include as 'victims', those employees which participated(the fake trading room) in the fraud?