Bob Menendez Loses Bid to Toss Corruption Case Amid Laptop Flap
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A federal judge ruled former US Senator Bob Menendez doesn’t deserve a new trial on corruption charges even though prosecutors gave jurors a laptop that contained evidence they weren’t supposed to see.
It was “extraordinarily unlikely” that jurors were aware that 11 documents that had been ruled inadmissible in the case were included among the 3,000 other exhibits on the laptop, US District Judge Sidney Stein said Wednesday.