McCloud said the materials should be filed so that the Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals can consider them. Kott is appealing his 2007 conviction on bribery, conspiracy and extortion charges, in part on the grounds that prosecutors wrongly held back information that could have helped the defense. Last year, prosecutors turned over 4,500 pages of records that Kott says he should have gotten before his trial.
McCloud said the new materials provided last week, all handwritten and hard to read, "contain certain information favorable to Pete Kott that was known to the government before the Kott trial started."
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