NEW YORK– Bob Menendez asked a judge Wednesday to reserve guilty decisions that required his resignation from the U.S. Senate and approve a brand-new bribery trial.

Lawyers for the New Jersey Democrat stated in documents submitted in Manhattan federal court that a current discovery by district attorneys that improper evidence was placed on a computer system utilized by jurors throughout considerations implies that a brand-new trial is “inevitable.”

The 70-year-old Menendez was convicted in July of 16 charges, consisting of bribery, in part based upon a claims that he accepted allurements in exchange for authorizing military help to Egypt.

He waits for a Jan. 29 sentencing. Menendez resigned from the Senate in August.

At trial, district attorneys stated Menendez accepted gold and money from 3 New Jersey business owners in return for favors.

Earlier this month, district attorneys exposed in a letter to Judge Sidney H. Stein that they had actually found that some accurate details that the judge had actually ruled ought to be left out from a number of trial displays was rather accidentally filled onto a computer system utilized by jurors to reach their decision.

In their letter, district attorneys stated inaccurate variations of 9 federal government exhibitions were missing out on some redactions purchased by Stein to guarantee that the exhibitions did not breach the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause, which safeguards speech associating with details shared by lawmakers.

Prosecutors argued in their letter that no action was needed because of the mistake for a number of factors, consisting of that defense attorney did not object after they examined files on that laptop computer before it was provided to jurors.

They likewise stated there was a “affordable probability” that no jurors saw the mistakenly redacted variations of the exhibitions which the files might not have actually prejudiced the offenders anyhow since they were of “secondary significance and cumulative with plentiful effectively confessed proof.”

Lawyers for Menendez, however, stated in their submission Wednesday that the exhibitions included the “only proof in the record” connecting Menendez to military help to Egypt, “an otherwise-missing reality at the very center of the main charge versus him.”

” In light of this major breach, a brand-new trial is inevitable, regardless of all the effort and resources that entered into the very first one,” they composed.

The legal representatives slammed the federal government’s effort to move blame for the mistake onto them by stating they saw the laptop computer’s contents and authorized it.

” That is both factually and lawfully outrageous,” they composed. “The defense had just a couple of hours to examine a laptop computer which contained almost 3,000 exhibitions; it deserved to anticipate that the federal government had actually not mislabeled non-introduced and constitutionally disallowed displays as confessed ones. If this were dealt with as a waiver, that would offer celebrations the reward to purposefully attempt to pull a quick one.”