NEW YORK: President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers have urged a judge to overturn his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star because of alleged juror misconduct.
Much of the court filing, which was dated Dec 3 and made public on Tuesday, was redacted from public view. The nature of the alleged juror misconduct was not immediately clear.
A spokesman for Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office brought the charges, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump on Monday lost a separate bid to dismiss the case. The Republican businessman-turned politician, who is preparing to begin his second White House term on Jan 20, had argued that the Supreme Court’s July ruling recognising immunity from prosecution for a president’s official acts meant the verdict could not stand.