NEW YORK (AP) — New York Metropolis prosecutors are looking for to have the state’s highest court docket revive state mortgage fraud fees in opposition to President Donald Trump’s former marketing campaign chairman Paul Manafort after hanging out twice earlier than in decrease courts.

The Manhattan district legal professional’s workplace despatched a letter Tuesday to the state’s chief choose asking permission to problem an intermediate appeals court docket’s ruling final month, which upheld a choose’s determination to dismiss the case on double jeopardy grounds. In New York, the best court docket is known as the Court docket of Appeals.

A four-judge panel within the intermediate court docket dominated Oct. 22 that the DA’s workplace didn’t reveal that the state fees warranted an exception to state double jeopardy protections. That echoed trial court docket choose Maxwell Wiley’s discovering final December that the state fees in opposition to Manafort mirrored the federal case that landed him behind bars.

A message looking for remark was left with Manafort’s lawyer, who beforehand stated the case led by Manhattan District Lawyer Cyrus Vance Jr. had in depth factual overlap with the federal case and was a “clear violation of New York regulation.”

Vance, a Democrat, filed the state fees in what was extensively seen as an try and hedge in opposition to the chance Trump would pardon Manafort for federal crimes. That hasn’t occurred.

Manafort, 71, was convicted in federal court docket on fees alleging he misled the U.S. authorities about profitable international lobbying work, hid hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from tax authorities and inspired witnesses to lie on his behalf.

He was launched to house confinement in Might due to considerations in regards to the coronavirus lower than a 12 months into his practically 7½-year sentence.