NEW ORLEANS — Following his conviction in a multimillion-dollar fraud case involving staged highway accidents, attorney Jason Giles has filed an appeal and is asking a judge to throw out his guilty verdict.
Giles’ law firm, the King Firm, was also found guilty March 20, and now attorneys representing Giles and the firm argue their convictions were not supported by sufficient evidence and should be overturned.
“Even when viewed in the light most favorable to the Government, the evidence fails to establish the essential elements of the charged offenses,” the attorneys wrote in their motion for judgment of acquittal…