A New Jersey appeals court has refused to overturn the conviction and seven-year prison sentence handed to a disbarred Monmouth County attorney and failed political candidate who a jury decided misappropriated more than $100,000 from an estate.

A three-judge Appellate Division panel in an unpublished decision brushed aside a slew of objections raised by the ex-lawyer, Eugene Lavergne, to how his 2014 trial was handled.