CRIME & LAW

Trump Appeals Manhattan Conviction, Challenges Legal Theory

President Trump late Monday filed a 96-page appeal of his Manhattan criminal conviction, asserting the trial was 'fatally marred' by improper evidence and judicial errors. The filing, submitted to the First Department of the State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division around 11:30 p.m., seeks to overturn 34 felony counts tied to falsified business records related to a 2016 hush-money payment made by Michael D. Cohen to Stormy Daniels and reimbursed in 2017. Prosecutors argued the falsifications concealed state election-law violations; Trump’s lawyers call the theory convoluted and time-barred.

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