The Trump administration will not support a one-time Jan. 6 defendant's bid to have his criminal conviction and sentence set aside – rejecting a collection of arguments regarding the fairness of his trial and subsequent sentencing in federal district court.

In August, former U.S. Marine and NYPD officer Thomas Webster filed a relatively obscure motion asking for the relief in question.

In his petition for writ of error coram nobis , Webster alleged his jury was not impartial, that the court wrongly denied him the ability to cross-examine his victim, wrongly instructed the jury on one count, and subsequently sentenced him unreasonably compared to others.

Now, the government argues his claims are not particularly relevant in a legal sense, and to the extent Webster does raise any valid cl

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