By Luc Cohen
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump have urged a judge to overturn his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star over alleged juror misconduct.
Much of the court documents, dated December 3 and made public on Tuesday, were redacted from public view. The nature of the juror’s alleged misconduct was not immediately clear.
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A spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office filed the charges, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump lost a separate bid to dismiss the case on Monday. The Republican businessman-turned-politician, who is preparing to begin his second term in the White House on Jan. 20, had argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling in July that recognized immunity from prosecution for a president’s official actions , meant that the verdict could not be upheld.
(Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Daniel Wallis)
