Former state Attorney General Kathleen Kane is pointing to a decision allowing a Montgomery County judge to oversee her criminal case as part of the reason why her criminal conviction should be overturned.

Kane, who was convicted last year on perjury and related charges over leaking confidential information, has filed a brief to the Pennsylvania Superior Court, asking that her sentence be vacated, her conviction overturned and the charges against her dismissed.

Among the challenges Kane—who resigned after being convicted—raised to the criminal proceedings against her, she argued in the brief, which was filed with the Superior Court on June 16, that the full bench of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas should have recused from her case because three of its judges were personally connected to aspects of the prosecution or personnel on the case. Kane pointed to Judge William Carpenter, who had overseen the grand jury proceedings against Kane, and Judge Risa Vetri Ferman, who had been the Montgomery County district attorney who ultimately decided to bring charges against Kane. Judge Carolyn Carluccio, Kane noted in the brief, is the wife of the special prosecutor appointed by Carpenter.