June 11 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's appeal hearing in his hush-money case is back in a New York court on Wednesday in the president's latest legal bid to overturn his historic criminal conviction.
A three-judge U.S. court of appeals panel will meet in a Manhattan courtroom as Trump's lawyers argue the case should instead be directed to a federal court because prosecutors allegedly relied heavily on Trump's official presidential acts as evidence and thus deserve a federal platform to push the presidential immunity claim.
Trump is not expected to make an appearance at the appeal hearing.
Trump was convicted in May 2024 by New York's lower Supreme Court on all 34 counts of falsifying business records purportedly to cover up payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels over their alleged sexual encounters prior to the 2016 presidential election.
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