The attorneys for the two men convicted in a deadly human smuggling case along the northern border are filing for new trials and/or acquittal.

Lawyers for a man convicted of human smuggling charges by a Minnesota jury after a family from India froze to death in Manitoba while trying to walk across the Canada-U.S. border in 2022 are asking for their client to either be acquitted in the case or get a new trial.

The two defendants convicted in a human smuggling case continue to argue for their innocence, filing separate motions for acquittal or new trials to the U.S. District Court in Fergus Falls on Friday,