Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Nebraska) is no longer a convicted felon following a Tuesday afternoon ruling by a 9th Circuit US Circuit Court of Appeals panel. In a 23-page filing, US District Judge James Donato — the author of the opinion by the 9th Circuit panel — wrote that Fortenberry was improperly tried by a federal jury in Los Angeles, California, when he in fact should have been tried either in his home state of Nebraska or in Washington, DC. Following Tuesday’s ruling, Fortenberry will be entitled to a new trial in a different court. “Fortenberry’s trial took place in a state where …