Menendez requests new trial after prosecutors admit error

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Former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez asked a judge on Wednesday to grant him a new trial in his bribery case due to news that prosecutors found improper evidence placed on computers accessed by jurors.

His legal team filed papers in Manhattan court, saying a new trial is “unavoidable.”

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