Jurisprudence

Sports agents Norby Walters and Lloyd Bloom will be retried separately on charges that they used cash and violent threats to recruit college athletes as clients.

Both were found guilty in 1989 after a five-week jury trial, but the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed their convictions on racketeering and fraud charges in September.

The appellate court said Walters had been denied a fair trial because jurors weren’t allowed to consider properly his contention that he had acted without criminal intent.

Bloom was unfairly denied a request to be tried separately, the appellate court said. No dates have been set for the trials.

Walters and Bloom were originally accused of persuading college athletes to sign as clients in violation of NCAA eligibility rules.