In a 211 page brief to the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston on Wednesday, the Defense Team for Convicted Former Fall RIver Mayor Jasiel Correia makes the arguement that the Sno Owl and Marijuaua cases were flawed from the outset. 

Boston based Defense Attorneys William Fixx and Daniel Marx maintain that the everidence in the Marijuaua portion of the case failed to establish that Correia conspired with others, directly solicited bribes or engaged in fraud. 

The defense futher argued that what they terms as extensive and irrelevent evidence in the 10 vacated counts ''likely tainted the jury's verdicts on the 11 remaining counts, which included testimony from ''admitted criminals with powerful incentives'' to lie on the wittness stand. 

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Attorneys Marx and Fixx futher argue that the District Court erred in both form and substance of tis jury instructions, and that closing arguements delivered by the prosecution were improper.