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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Prosecutors argued Friday that Sen. Larry Craig's appeal misinterprets the disorderly conduct law and his guilty plea in a bathroom sex sting should stand.
The Idaho Republican asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals last month to let him withdraw his guilty plea. His lawyers claim the state's disorderly conduct law would apply only if witnesses other than the police officer who arrested Craig had been present.
In the response, prosecutors also argued that a district court judge did not abuse his discretion, as Craig's lawyers contended, when he refused to let Craig change his guilty plea after he had entered it and paid his fine.
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