Lawyers representing Brooke Astor’s son and a lawyer who had done work for her had asked that their convictions be thrown out because of an incident involving a holdout juror.
A holdout juror’s claim that threats caused her to cave in and convict Brooke Astor’s son of fraud was exaggerated and inaccurate, prosecutors argued.
A juror’s statements will form the basis of an an expected appeal of Anthony D. Marshall’s fraud conviction.
Defense lawyers urged the judge to see Anthony D. Marshall as the war hero, the international attaché, the late-in-life Broadway producer.
Anthony D. Marshall, 85, was convicted of siphoning millions from his mother in a trial that focused on a tangle of wills and codicils.
The assistant district attorney countered defense arguments that Anthony D. Marshall was too old and infirm to serve time.
Letters from about 75 friends are part of a defense effort to attain the dismissal of the most serious charge Brooke Astor’s son was convicted of, first-degree grand larceny.