Thompson's bid for a new trial is a routine request made after criminal convictions, and such motions are rarely granted, but are typically used as the basis for filing a formal appeal to a higher court.
In their bid for a new trial, Thompson's attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama to either overturn the jury's verdict and acquit him of all charges, or grant him a new trial, arguing prosecutors failed to prove their case against him.
"Both the government's closing argument and rebuttal argument were highly improper and prejudicial," the motion states. "There not only was no evidence of any such plan, but even worse, the government's argument directly conflicted with the evidence," the motion states."Ignoring the actual evidence, the government littered its argument with innuendos about a supposed 'plan' that simply had no evidentiary or factual basis."
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