Donald Trump sits at the defense table at his New York fraud trial, flanked, from left, by attorneys Chirstopher Kise, Alina Habba, and Clifford Robert.
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- Trump's civil fraud trial lawyers are appealing their $7,500 sanctions for filing frivolous motions.
- They say that prior sanctions for lawyering by Alina Habba were improperly used against them.
- Four lawyers repeatedly argue in their appeal that they had nothing to do with Habba's old cases.