MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) – It’s been a month since a jury awarded former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura $1.8 million in the defamation suit he brought against Chris Kyle, but the widow of the ‘American Sniper’ isn’t ready to let him have it.

On Thursday, attorneys representing Taya Kyle asked a judge to toss out the jury’s verdict and order a new trial. Her legal team argued that the applicable laws and evidence presented in the previous trial don’t support the jury’s award of damages for defamation and unjust enrichment.

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