Rowland’s lawyers ask for new trial

HARTFORD, Conn. – Two weeks before former Gov. John G. Rowland is scheduled to be sentenced for campaign corruption crimes, his lawyers made a last-minute pitch asking a federal court judge to order a new trial.

The former governor is expected to be sentenced March 18 for conspiring to hide his work as a paid campaign consultant from federal campaign regulators.

Last week, Judge Janet Bond Arterton denied a request from Rowland’s lawyers aimed at triggering a new trial based on their assertion that prosecutors withheld evidence that could have helped Rowland’s case. But Arterton allowed Rowland’s lead attorney, Reid Weingarten, to file a memo to argue his case for a new trial.

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