By all accounts, the lawyering on both sides in the public corruption trial of labor leader John Dougherty and Philadelphia Councilman Bobby Henon was excellent, and the criminal convictions a federal jury handed up Monday were hard fought by prosecutors.

But now, according to several court watchers, prosecutors will need to continue the fight if they want to make sure the convictions withstand an appeal in the face of a growing body of U.S. Supreme Court case law that might be difficult to overcome.

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