A disbarred criminal defense attorney and his paralegal are fighting to toss out their 2016 convictions of bribing an agent from the New York City Criminal Justice Agency to steer clients their way, arguing that the employee was not a public official.

But at oral arguments for the appeals Thursday before a panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, the attorneys for former attorney Benjamin Yu and paralegal Jose Nuñez were met with justices who questioned how an agent from the CJA, a private nonprofit that serves the state court system by interviewing defendants to determine if they can be released on recognizance, is not providing a government function.

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