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As a prosecutor and a defense attorney for decades, I have argued hundreds of cases at this court. I’ve looked closely at the Trump case. The burning question now is, could his conviction be reversed on appeal? My answer is, the chances of that are not good.
Mr. Trump’s legal team can approach his appeal on several fronts, but only one, concerning the legal theory behind the falsifying business records charge, is likely to hold out anything more than the slimmest of hopes for the former president.
— Roger L. Stavis, co-head of Mintz & Gold’s White Collar Criminal Defense and Investigations Practice, commenting in a New York Times opinion piece on former president Donald Trump’s “long odds” when it comes to appealing his conviction. Stavis went on to note that in recent years, the Appellate Division, First Department has “reversed appeals from criminal convictions in only about 4 to 6 percent of cases.”
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